The Second World War saw the majority of Europe succumb to Nazi occupation. The brutal repression that followed triggered ...
During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary ...
But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead of submitting meekly to the jackboots. Among them were the heroes of the ...
The anniversary has taken on added poignancy due to the advanced age of the survivors, even as new wars makes their warnings as relevant as ever.
Just before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we have an opportunity to learn from the spirit of those Holocaust survivors who arrived in Israel and draw inspiration from what they created.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans, though far from the only one. Some type of armed resistance was found in most ghettos, and, as was the case in Warsaw ...
Woman: The unarmed resistance is called in Hebrew Amidah ... Freund: They were documenting the entire life of the Warsaw Ghetto, and then they buried it, and they buried it because they wanted ...
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising actually occurred in two phases: (1) a smaller-scale uprising that flared up on January 18, 1943, and (2) a longer-term and higher-intensity resistance action from April ...
We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Instead, it’s widely believed “Jews went to ...
One of the first to understand that was the young resistance fighter (later poet laureate of Israel) Abba Kovner. At the beginning of 1942, Kovner wrote a Manifesto, the first published call for ...
Because men could so easily be identified as Jews, women played an outsized role in the Jewish resistance, risking their lives daily to procure arms and rescue other Jews. One of those female ...