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 ...
The Second World War saw the majority of Europe succumb to Nazi occupation. The brutal repression that followed triggered ...
“Voices From the Warsaw Ghetto,” edited by David Roskies ’69, MA’71, PhD’75, is a book of unrelenting power. You read it the way you might burn through a fever: dizzied by its force, aware that you ...
The red graffiti says “Warsaw 1943 = Gaza 2025,” and was written beneath a quote from the book of Job. A memorial to Jews deported from the Warsaw Ghetto was defaced with graffiti appearing to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Between 1940 and 1943 a group of dedicated writers, led by historian Emanuel Ringeblum, secretly recorded daily Jewish existence in the Warsaw Ghetto. It would become history as survival.
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.
A memorial to Jews deported from the Warsaw Ghetto was defaced with graffiti appearing to equate the Holocaust with the war in Gaza. The graffiti makes Warsaw’s Umschlagplatz memorial the latest ...