This amazing and moving study sheds new light on details of the Holocaust that have up until now not been examined. Under the German occupation, "ninety-eight percent of the Jewish population of ...

Alex Hershaft remembers the special comb. He and his family were living in the Warsaw ghetto. It was 1940. He was a little boy, about 6 years old. A disease known as epidemic typhus was spreading ...

On the anniversary of the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland, Life.com has published a series of photos from Hugo Jaeger that depict the city and the smaller ghetto of Kutno in the ...

April 19, 2021, is the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and a good time to take aim at the myth that Jews went “like sheep to the slaughter.” Warsaw stands alongside Auschwitz as a ...

The uprising by Jewish people entrapped in the Warsaw Ghetto 75 years ago has been well documented in art and literature. Here, a look at how the event has served as fodder in films. On April 19, 1943 ...

A conversation with the historian Gunnar S. Paulsson who opened up an important historical debate with his book, "Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940-45", which challenged popular and ...