WWII

Strangest war in history? Seventy-one years ago today Poland declared WAR on its old friend Japan - and it lasted for 16 years

On November 11, Władysław Sikorski's government reluctantly declared war on Japan, but cooperation between the two countries continued to flourish with a Polish espionage network being created at the Japanese embassy in Berlin, and Polish agents and diplomats being allowed to travel on passports provided by the Japanese. NAC

Despite the state of war, cooperation between agents continued. Polish spies continued to move around WWII Europe using passports provided by the Japanese, and the exchange of information about the USSR and Germany continued. TFN’s Stuart Dowell looks back at the curious affair to find out more.

Could looted art from WWII be hidden under village chapel?

An amateur historian says he has found documents pointing to the location of artwork stolen by Nazi Germany, including Raphael’s Portrait of a Young Man estimated to be worth around 100 million USD.

New book explores the amazing and contradictory wartime life of a Jewish female agent who worked for the Germans and the Poles

To some she was a traitor, to others a heroine, but perhaps all Wanda Kronenberg did was in the cause of survival.

USA Today changes text after Polish Embassy's protest

USA Today replaced its text with a new version after the Polish Embassy in Washington on Friday protested against the use of the phrase 'Polish death camps.'

Władysław ‘The Pianist’ Szpilman remembered on 108th birthday anniversary

With both a glittering pre and post-war musical career, after surviving the war through a combination of luck, the bravery of pre-war friends and the unlikely intervention of a music-loving German officer, Szpilman was later accused of being a Gestapo agent.

Hitler’s concentration camp for children

Joanna Podolska-Płocka, the director of the Marek Edelman Dialogue Center in Łódź, talks to TFN about a Nazi German ‘concentration’ camp exclusively for children aged between 2 and 16. Operating between December 1942 and January 1945, the camp has now been almost totally lost from the collective memory.

Beaten, starved and tortured: The horrifying story of Hitler’s concentration camp for children

TFN’s Stuart Dowell travelled to the city of Łódź where, 76 years ago this month, Hitler’s monstrous SS set up a ‘concentration’ camp exclusively for children aged between 2 and 16.

Righteous Among the Nations medals awarded in Warsaw

Sixteen Poles who helped rescue Jews during World War Two were posthumously awarded with Righteous Among the Nations medals at a ceremony at Warsaw's POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews on Wednesday.

Cigarette case that saved WWII Jewish man found in mint condition

The silver case which originally belonged to a Jewish prisoner was sitting in the Polish man’s house for a decade until he found it and handed it over to the Shem Olam Institute.

Memorial to Polish soldiers resited in Boston after 12 years

The Partisans Memorial, a sculpture depicting Polish WWII underground soldiers was unveiled after 12 years in Boston, the Boston Herald daily announced on Tuesday.

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