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This blog is about Piłsudski Square in Warsaw. Today it is the big empty square between City Center and Old Town, it is where the Polish...

The morning of August 5th, 1944 marks one of the darkest days in the history of Warsaw. It was on this day that the SS Dirlewanger...

Today is August 1. Warsaw stops. At 5:00 p.m (11:00am in Boston), sirens rise and wail across the city. The noise pierces through...

July 20, 1944, a German officer with a patch over one eye and a mangled right hand walked into Hitler’s Eastern Front headquarters, the...

This is one of the most important and haunting questions about the nature of evil in war: The answer lies in a deadly combination of...

Khatyn: The Village That Burned While They Screamed On March 22, 1943, in Nazi-occupied Belarus, the village of Khatyn ceased to exist,...

Polish history is filled with incredible bravery, from the Home Army fighting off the Blitzkrieg in 1939, to the underground sabotaging...

During my first vagabonding trip of six months, I spent one month in Warsaw—January of 2024. I stayed at the Oki Doki Hostel as a...

Are you a history enthusiast or a dark tourist looking to delve into the real depths of Warsaw's dark history from 1930's all the way to...

Warsaw, the capital of Poland, holds a rich and complex history that includes a significant chapter during World War II that also...

Walking Tour: The Warsaw Uprising If you're passionate about history or a traveler eager to explore Poland's past, this tour in Warsaw...