Władysław Szpilman, Wiera Gran, Władysław Szlengel, Gela Seksztajn... Famous and cherished before the war, they sang, wrote, composed and painted. They spoke Yiddish and Polish. During World War II, ...

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.

“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 ...

23, 2024. Author Jeffrey N. Gingold writes about his family's experience in the Warsaw Ghetto. (Mindaugas Kulbis / AP) The Warsaw Ghetto was a death warrant on the Jews. Among those who were ...

Among the most famous is the Warsaw ghetto uprising that began on April 19, 1943, when resistance fighters launched a surprise attack on Nazis coming to liquidate the ghetto, leading to the ...

Some 700 participants walked to a hospital where doctors gave morphine to some children, allowing them to die in their beds rather than be transported to death camps. WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Some ...

She also brought up the famous kneeling by former German Chancellor ... by a Polish Jew who had been imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a monthlong act of resistance ...

(JTA) — Members of the Jewish community of Warsaw buried the bones of a person who may have died 80 years ago in the city’s ghetto during the Holocaust. The identity of the person whose bones ...