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 Second World War saw the majority of Europe succumb to Nazi occupation. The brutal repression that followed triggered ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary ...

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 ...

The Nazis murdered Shapira’s children and forced the rabbi into the Warsaw Ghetto, where he ran a secret synagogue and delivered weekly sermons. He compiled the pages of those lectures ...

Remembering the atrocities at Auschwitz is vital, but we can’t lose sight of the fact that Auschwitz is only one part of the story of the Holocaust, writes.

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.

Renowned playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, a Wayzata resident, praised the cast and crew who performed an adaptation of his original play, “Korczak’s Children,” on Feb. 26 at Chanhassen High ...

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 ...