Lauren Moyer, a social studies teacher at Fairfield Warde High School, visited Auschwitz, Krakow and Warsaw with the ...

Scholastic Publishers has now produced a series of books written by Joshua M. Greene telling the story of young girls and ...

WARSAW (JTA) — In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa ... the last ...

KRAKOW, Poland — The notes of the trumpeter high in a famed belfry tumble down, followed by a portentous silence. The notes, briefly, float once more. To most of those dining, shopping, or ...

KRAKOW GHETTO REGISTRATION FORMS (1940) : NAME INDEX WITH DOCUMENT IMAGES (USHMM ARCHIVES RG-15.058M/USHMM REGISTRY AC1002) / prepared by the Registry of Holocaust Survivors, United States Holocaust ...

This grouping contains registration forms completed by the Jewish inhabitants of Kraków, Poland, in 1940 and coordinated by the Jüdische Gemeinde in Krakau (Jewish Community in Kraków) in response to ...

The Warsaw Ghetto, where all Jews from the Polish capital were forced to live, was established and opened in November 1940, when the construction of the Wall that was supposed to prevent the Jews from ...

The ghetto into which the Nazis confined Krakow’s Jews has been demarked, the fragments of ghetto wall preserved. The ghetto’s lone medical store – operated by a non-Jewish Pole who remained ...

The 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany put an end to Kraków’s heyday. A ghetto for the city’s Jews was created in the Podgórze district and the castle was totally destroyed, while 60 ...

WARSAW (JTA) — A swastika and other graffiti were painted on the wall of the former ghetto in Krakow. “Whores Jews, get the f*** out of Poland” alongside the swastika were discovered drawn ...

The demolition of the wall bordering the square in the former Warsaw Ghetto known as the Umschlagplatz was first reported Tuesday by the Virtual Shtetl website. The brick wall, which in some ...