The Nazi German occupying forces attempted to enter the Warsaw Ghetto to deport the last surviving members of the city’s Jewish population to the Majdanek and Treblinka death camps. But instead of ...

(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 ...

An-ski and I.L. Peretz to Ludwik Zamenhof, who created the international language of Esperanto, to Mark Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Some gravestones stand ...

On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor ...

On the eve of Passover 1943 — the nineteenth of April — a group of several hundred poorly armed young Jews began the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, one of the first insurrections against Nazism.

(JTA) — Members of the Jewish community of Warsaw buried the bones of a person who may have died 80 years ago in the city’s ghetto during the Holocaust. The identity of the person whose bones ...

Finding ways to reduce the debt and increase government efficiency can be done without dismantling our government, our Constitution, our economy, our national security, and our moral compass.

the Żabińskis started hiding Nazi victims in the empty animal cages once the Warsaw Ghetto was established. The couple devised a plan to turn the zoo into a pig farm in order to keep it ...

“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 ...

Today, Oyerbakh is remembered for her work running a soup kitchen in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Her tenure at the kitchen is one small glimpse into a lifetime of public service carried out ...

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 ...