Polish social worker Irena Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War Two. Children were smuggled out in suitcases, potato sacks and even coffins. Show more Irena ...

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

On 19th April 1943, smoke covered the skies over central Warsaw. The Nazi German occupying forces attempted to enter the Warsaw Ghetto to deport the last surviving members of the city’s Jewish ...

Today, Oyerbakh is remembered for her work running a soup kitchen in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Her tenure at the kitchen is one small glimpse into a lifetime of public service carried out ...

Poland’s ministry of foreign affairs denounced on Friday the defacement in Warsaw the previous day of a World War II monument ...

Germany's president has drawn parallels between the brutal Nazi crackdown of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and Russian President Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. Mr Putin ...

On April 19, 1943, German troops entered the Warsaw Ghetto to deport its remaining inhabitants. They were greeted with a revolt. Help ensure Jewish news remains accessible to all. Your donation to ...

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.

A short distance across this oppressed, war-torn city, behind a three-metre wall, is the infamous Warsaw Ghetto, from which interned Jews are being herded into trains and transported to ...

The last surviving fighter of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 has died at the age of 94. Simcha Rotem, also known as Kazik, was one of the Jewish partisans who rose up against the Nazis when ...

Israel’s Ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne condemned the vandalism and called on authorities to properly investigate the ...