Polish Radio has marked 25 years since the death of Władysław Szpilman, the acclaimed pianist, composer and Holocaust ...

One of the last surviving members of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance has told CNN the world must never forget the bravery of those who stood up to the Nazis, 80 years after World War II’s largest ...

Around two-thirds of the Warsaw Ghetto, some 265,000 people, were deported to the Majdanek and Treblinka death camps in the summer of 1942. The following spring, ...

A second round of deportations, begun on April 19, 1943, the day before Passover, sparked the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Approximately 650 Jewish fighters, most of whom were untrained, staged their ...

In April 1943 — 80 years ago this month — rumors of an upcoming deportation were rampant among Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Even during this dark time, residents continued to prepare for ...

WARSAW — 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 ...

Books In the Warsaw ghetto, where disease, cold weather and violence all exerted heavy tolls Lauren Grodstein’s ‘We Must Not Think of Ourselves’ focuses on glimmers of hope amid overwhelming ...

The Warsaw ghetto initially held some 380,000 Jews who were cramped into tight living spaces, and at its peak housed about half a million people. Disease and starvation were rampant, ...

Within months of their 1939 invasion of Poland, Nazi forces created the infamous Warsaw Ghetto. At its peak, more than 450,000 Jews were required to live in this small, walled-off area of about 1. ...

One of the last surviving members of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance has told CNN the world must never forget the bravery of those who stood up to the Nazis, 80 years after World War II’s largest ...