Polish-Jewish doctor and educator Janusz Korczak was famous throughout Europe as director of the Warsaw Ghetto orphanage and an advocate for children’s rights. Despite offers of sanctuary, he chose to ...

WARSAW — Experiencing the Holocaust in Warsaw is largely an act of imagination. The Warsaw Ghetto, once home at its height to approximately 460,000 Jews from 1940 to 1943, was obliterated by the Nazis ...

A vital documentary unveils the secret diarists of the Warsaw Ghetto, who testified on every page to the life that the Nazis tried to bury. The most famous diarist of the Holocaust, Anne Frank, began ...

“The Jewish Children in Ghettos and Death Camps." Painting by Israel Bernbaum, 1981. Oil on canvas, 70 3/8 x 82 1/4 inches. (Property of the Montclair State University [New Jersey] Permanent ...

Poland will mark, for the first time in history, the deportation of 250,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the extermination camp Treblinka. Events throughout the city will take place on Sunday to ...

A 90-minute television program documenting the 1943 uprising of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, broadcast nationally last night over the CBS-TV network, has drawn hundreds of protests from German ...

The protester, woh unfurled a Palestinian flag, laid flowers and stood silently during the ceremony to mark the 81st anniversary of the uprising against the Nazis. (JTA) — As dignitaries stood on ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two sections of the wall that isolated the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II should be added to a list of historical monuments, a regional conservation official in Poland said ...

(RNS) — Living in America, I escaped the Nazis in those horrendous years. But I am forever haunted by the knowledge that had I been born in Transylvania instead of Pennsylvania, I would likely have ...

Scarlett Johansson was fighting back tears after learning the tragic fates of her family members during World War II. The famous actress learned her great-grandfather’s brother and his children all ...

“Voices From the Warsaw Ghetto,” edited by David Roskies ’69, MA’71, PhD’75, is a book of unrelenting power. You read it the way you might burn through a fever: dizzied by its force, aware that you ...

For almost 30 days, a starving, ill-equipped, and almost completely untrained group of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto fought off thousands of German troops, including the supposedly elite SS. These men and ...