The Warsaw Ghetto was a death warrant. Among those who were forcibly collected and sealed to die within its walls was my ...
But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead ...
was hanged in Poland in 1952. While the Jewish resistance faced overwhelming odds against the vastly larger and better armed ...
(JTA) — For the last 80 years, the only way to see images of Jews rising up against their captors in the Warsaw Ghetto has been from the perspective of Germans, who took the only known ...
“As German federal president, I stand before you today and bow to the courageous fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto,” Steinmeier said. “I bow to the dead in deep sorrow.” And Poland, where ...
Commemorations are being held Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet ...
The Polin Museum sought to tell the story of the country’s Jews even as a right-wing government sought to stifle discussions of antisemitism and complicity. WARSAW, Poland — In the heart of ...
A memorial to Jews deported from the Warsaw Ghetto was defaced with graffiti ... On Tuesday, Yacov Livne, Israel’s ambassador in Poland, decried the graffiti. A view of the Umschlagplatz ...
Renee Salt, now aged 95, was a prisoner at Auschwitz, before she was moved to Bergen-Belsen which was later liberated by the ...
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 ...
in a joint handshake at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes at the end of the main ceremony on April 19, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland A global antisemitism organization has canceled a Holocaust Memorial ...