Polish journalist Magdalena Grzebalkowska offers an impressionistic snapshot of this shattered nation in Poland 1945: War and Peace, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

They called it a Panzer Army—but by 1945, it was a hollow name. With outdated tanks, green recruits, and patched-together ...

Six of these camps operated in Poland. Four of the six million Jews killed between 1933-1945 were murdered in death camps. Concentration camps were established in Nazi-occupied territory.

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Officials in Poland have remembered the 1945 Augustów Roundup massacre, in which hundreds of Polish anti-communist fighters were killed by Soviet soldiers and secret police.

On February 27, 1945, the Demyanchik family applied for resettlement to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (the territory of their village was to become part of Poland).