The Warsaw Ghetto was a death warrant. Among those who were forcibly collected and sealed to die within its walls was my seven-year-old father, his ...

They spoke Yiddish and Polish. During World War II, imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, they never stopped being artists. In poetry, he was a bitter observer of life in Poland in the 1930s, including the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. International Workers' Order (IWO) and J... International Workers' Order (IWO) and Jewish People's Fraternal Order (JPFO) Behind the Wall: Life - and ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...