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The Invasion
The German army invaded Poland on September 1939.The Polish army was defeated after a month of ferocious fighting. After Poland had been overrun a government exile headquartered in Britain armed force and an educated service were set outside of Poland. It is estimated the overall 5.7 million Polish were dead. -
The Deportation
The Germans began the Jews living in Austria and Czechoslovakia to the caves in Poland taken in locked passenger trains many people on the journey. The people that survived were told by Adolf Eichmann who was the leader Gestapo's Department and Jewish affairs. "There was not any apartments or any houses even if you build your homes you will at least have a roof over you head". -
ZWZ
Formally, the ZWZ was directed from Paris, by General Kazimierz Sosnkowski who after Poland’s defeat escaped to France. Due to practical problems, however, Sosnkowski’s control of the organization was very limited. The instruction of General Sosnkowski, in which he ordered his assistance to create territorial parts of the ZWZ, was brought to Warsaw on 4 December 1939. -
Underground State
The underground resistance corporation in Poland during world war two military and civilian both faithful to the Polish force in deportation, in London. It enclosed not only the military resistance but also the civvies structures such as training, culture, and social services. The movement covered both German and Soviet zones of jobs. -
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Auschwitz was built to hold Polish Political prisoners who first arrived in May 1940. The first extermination of some of the prisoners took place in September 1941. Auschwitz ll-Birkenau went on to become a crucial site for the Nazis. From the beginning of 1942 to the end of 1944 transportation trains delivered Jews to the camps gas chambers where they were killed with cyanide based poison call Zyklon B. -
Cichciemni
Altogether 2,613 Polish Army troops volunteered for training by Polish and British SOE workers. Only 606 people completed the training, and eventually 316 of them were secretly parachuted into the occupied Poland. The first operation ("air bridge", as it was called) took place on 15 February 1941. -
Gwardia Ludowa WRN
In 1944 Gwardia Ludowa WRN numbered about 42,000 people. It was disbanded in early 1945. Together with the Home Army or Armia Krajowa (AK) proper, the People's Guard "Freedom Equality Independence" did try, and on a small scale thrive (some remote areas only), in providing the Polish citizens with the Polish Underground Police and court system independent from that of the Nazi German occupant. -
Intelligence
The Polish intelligence served and play a critical role in the Alliances camp. Their pre-war solve of the mystery displayed their worth. The service ordered a huge network of contacts which during the war was not was not only retain but in fact grew larger reaching from Sweden to North Africa. British intelligence was overwhelmed with reports from Polish sources for instance in 1943 more than 10,000 messages were reported. -
Zamosc Uprising
Local people resisted the action with great determination they were able to escape in forests arranged self defense assisted citizens who were evicted and bribed kidnapped children away from the Germans. Units of Polish resistance also elements of soviet supporters and the leader of the soviets Gwardia Ludowa helped the polish escape Polish citizens German colonists and forces in the area. -
Operation Arsenal
The Operation Arsenal was the first great operation by the Szare Szeregi Polish underground development during the Nazi occupation of Poland . The event took place on March 26 1943 in Warsaw. Its name was castes after the Warsaw Arsenal in front of which the event took place. The objective was to free the troop leader Jan Bytnar Rudy who was arrested together with his father by the Secret Police. -
Ghetto Uprising
The Ghetto uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that rose up within the Warsaw Ghetto as German invaded Poland in world war two. which was in opposite force of Nazi Germany's final go at transporting the remaining poles left in the ghetto and set them off to Treblinka. -
Resistance Weapons
The polish made many weapons during world war 2 that contributed to fighting and ending the war and trying to go back and rebuild their country -
The Forest Brothers
The forest brothers were Latvian and Lithuanian supporters who executed a Guerrilla war against Soviet rule during the Soviet invasion and takeover of the three states Baltic states during and after ww2 . Similar anti soviet Eastern European resistance groups fought against Soviet communist groups in Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, and western Ukraine. -
Battle Of Osuchy
The battle of osuchy was one of the greatest battles between the Polish resistance and Nazi Germany in taken over Poland during world war two a part of the Zamosc uprising. The setting of this event took place near the town of osuchy in the Solska Wilderness during the German Parisian. -
Warsaw Uprising
In Warsaw during world war two the Polish unsuccessfully tried to dispose of the German army and gather control of city before it was populated by the advancing Soviet army. Commanded by General Tadeusz Bor Komoroski the Warsaw division of 50,000 troops attacked the relatively weak German troops on August first and in less than three days gained control of most of the city. -
Aid To Jews
There was a substantial force of Poles who risked their lives during the German professional the save Jews. Germany occupied Poland and was the only European land where the Germans punishes any type of help to the Jews with death and death to the helpers whole family. Even though Poland was also the only German occupied territory to establish and corporation specifically aid to Jews. -
Armia Krajowa
Armia Krajowa was a Polish military anticommunist association and a inheritor of the disbanded polish anti Nazi resistance of the Home Army. It was founded at the end of ww2 by a colonial who had previously been commandant at the Bialystok area of the Home Army. -
Attack On The NKVD Camp
On May 21 1945 a unit of the Polish home army led by colonial Edward Wasilewski pounced on a soviet NKVD camp site located in Rembertow of the eastern border of Warsaw. Hundreds of Polish civilians had been jailed at Rembertow adding members of the Home Army and other members of the Underground force. Inmates at the camp were being completely trained the Serbia.
