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After escaping a labor camp during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Arie and his mother reached Leśna Góra and survived until liberation.
The official state opening ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day will take place on Wednesday, April 23 at 8 pm (20:00) in Yad Vashem's Warsaw Ghetto Square on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem.
The Warsaw Ghetto was a death warrant. Among those who were forcibly collected and sealed to die within its walls was my seven-year-old father, his parents, ...
The Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, and the next year they rounded up the 350,000 Jews of Warsaw and walled them up along with other refugees into the notorious Warsaw ghetto — an area about 3/4 ...
A detailed report disclosing that the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto used German guns and were dressed in German military uniforms and helmets when they waged their heroic resistance against the Nazi ...
The foreign heroes of the Warsaw Uprising: How British pilot, Irish nurse and Nigerian musician fought with Polish insurgents against the Nazis 80 years ago - but rebellion failed and left 180,000 ...
On the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, a hero remembers 'It defined our lives ... We didn’t have to be military to be killed. The Germans were bombing everybody.' ...
Irena Sendlerowa recently celebrated her 95th birthday in her small room in a Warsaw nursing home. Among the flower-bearing well-wishers were a number of people who owe their lives to this tiny ...
The photographs, captured by German nurse Helmy Spethmann during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, offer a haunting glimpse into the harsh realities of life in the Ghetto.
JERUSALEM -- Tova Gutstein was born in Warsaw the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. She was 10 years old when the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto launched the first act of collective defiance ...