But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead ...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle ... "The Germans had to flee from the ghetto twice. "The dream of my life has become a reality. "I have lived to see Jewish self-defense ...

Led by the historian Emmanuel Ringelblum, a team of 'researchers' wrote detailed surveys on life in the Warsaw Ghetto. They gathered posters, songs, newspapers, pamphlets and even tram tickets ...

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.

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

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

The developed pictures offer a previously unseen perspective on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising according ... remain in my eyes for the rest of my life,” Grzywaczewski wrote in his diary in 1943.

Jews had been confined to the Warsaw Ghetto from November 1940, life was terrible. In the Ghetto to the northwest of the city some 450,000 men, women, and children lived crammed together behind ...

In October 1939, Emanuel Ringelblum, a Jewish historian, organised the ‘Oneg Shabbat’ project, to keep a record of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Along with other contributors, he collected lots ...

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 ...