With a homebase on the Continent, there are an overwhelming number of destinations within a quick train or plane ride. The family cadres in Brussels and Amsterdam are obvious and necessary travel ...

Our family had lived peacefully in Warsaw for generations when the Nazis brutally invaded Poland in 1939. In the 1930s, my grandfather, Duvid Gingold, delivered seltzer bottles. My grandmother, Leah, ...

People gather at the Paneriai memorial in memory of the Jewish people of Vilnius killed by Nazis during World War II, during the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024 ...

As the Holocaust recedes in time, the complexities and varieties of Jewish resistance are moving into sharper focus. Rebellion, we now realize, wasn’t limited to taking up arms, committing sabotage, ...

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Michael Smuss, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland who resisted the Nazis, has died aged 99 in Israel. He joined the ...

After a brief sequence of Nazi rallies (including shots from Triumph of the Will), German footage of the invasion of Poland, and Julien Bryan footage of the siege of Warsaw in September 1939, this ...

In this 1943 file photo, a group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter ...

Michael Smuss, the last surviving fighter from the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, has died in Israel at the age of 99, The Jerusalem Post has reported. Born on April 15, 1926, Smuss was the last living ...

Michael Smuss, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland who resisted the Nazis, has died aged 99 in Israel. He joined the ghetto uprising as a teenager in 1943, helping to make petrol bombs. Taken ...