The Second World War saw the majority of Europe succumb to Nazi occupation. The brutal repression that followed triggered heroic resistance, often by groups with little chance of success. Nowhere was ...
Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s ...
“As German federal president, I stand before you today and bow to the courageous fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto,” Steinmeier told a few hundred politicians, Jewish leaders and others at the ...
WARSAW - Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, who became a journalist in Poland and headed an international committee of ...
23, 2024. Author Jeffrey N. Gingold writes about his family's experience in the Warsaw Ghetto. (Mindaugas Kulbis / AP) The Warsaw Ghetto was a death warrant on the Jews. Among those who were ...
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 ...
On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor ...
Among them were the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising actually occurred in two phases: (1) a smaller-scale uprising that flared up on January 18, 1943 ...
Tzivia Lubetkin, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and one of the founders of the Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot and its museum, has previously spoken about the sources of strength and inspiration ...
Joseph Alexander said he had a “very good life” with his family until Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939.  He was only 17 years old the first time he was in a concentration camp. Alexander ...
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 ...