A young boy, Zygmunt Askienow, crouches in the rubble after the Germans drop two bombs on his neighborhood in Warsaw.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Courtesy of Julien Bryan Archive
Mothers and newborns cowered in a hospital basement as the bombs fell. A teenager suffered fear and rage as the Germans plundered his home. A journalist risked his life to document the invasion of Poland. Hear from those who suffered persecution and those who witnessed the start of World War II. They could not have known then that this frightening moment in history would provide the Nazis with the opportunity to implement increasingly extreme racial policies, including carrying out their plan to murder Europe’s Jews.