But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead ...

The Warsaw Ghetto was a death warrant. Among those who were forcibly collected and sealed to die within its walls was my ...

In the 1930s, the area housed the bulk of Warsaw's Jewish population. By late 1940, the Nazis (who occupied Poland at the time) turned the region into a ghetto, and its residents either died from ...

The Second World War saw the majority of Europe succumb to Nazi occupation. The brutal repression that followed triggered ...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans, though far from the only one. Some type of ...

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Thirty-nine postcards sent during World War II from the Warsaw Ghetto have become part of the permanent collection at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.

Presidents joined Holocaust survivors and their descendants to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising on Wednesday with a poignant sense that the responsibility for ...

The Umschlagplatz memorializes the more than 300,000 people who were sent from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp by the Nazis. Getty Images The Umschlagplatz stands along the ...