Thursday, 10 April, 2020, marks the commemoration of a war crime 80 years ago in which the Soviet Union massacred thousands of Poles in locations including the Katyn Forest, near Smolensk, not far from Russia’s present western border. The atrocity was covered up for 50 years, and it took the fall of the USSR for […]
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the first armed resistance in German occupied territory in WW2, led by a band of brave but poorly armed resistance fighters. Elisabeth Gifford tells their story. In 1943 a band of poorly armed teenagers and young people staged the first organised armed resistance in the […]