Anna Stupnicka-Bando, left, a Polish Christian honored for saving Jews, walks with Waclaw Kornblum, right, a Polish Holocaust survivor, at a ceremony for the burial of a "time capsule" on the grounds ...
Starvation was omnipresent in the Warsaw Ghetto for both young and old. Blid Bundesarchiv/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA During the years of suffering and tragedy that defined the Warsaw Ghetto in the ...
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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 ...
One of the last surviving members of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance has told CNN the world must never forget the bravery of those who stood up to the Nazis, 80 years after World War II’s largest Jewish ...
Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the ill-fated 1943 Warsaw ghetto revolt against the Nazis, died Friday at the age of 90. Edelman died of old age at the family home of his friend Paula ...
The Great Synagogue of Warsaw, destroyed by the Nazis in 1943 during World War II, will re-appear as an image in blue light, brightening the sky above the city Thursday night. The blue image, a ...
Jews being led for deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images On April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover, German forces ...
During World War II, 30,000 Jewish partisans fought in Eastern Europe, in their own combat units. In Western Europe, where anti-semitism among the conquered gentile population was less severe, Jews ...
WARSAW, Poland – Almost nothing remains of the old Warsaw Ghetto: just a half-dozen buildings, a synagogue, some fragments of a brick wall. The rest was blown up by the Germans in their onslaught ...
A study seeks to learn how hundreds of thousands of Jews, crammed in the ghetto by the Nazis, halted an outbreak of epidemic typhus. Some —... Alex Hershaft remembers the special comb. He and his ...
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