Today the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is universally commended in Poland and around the world as a bold act of resistance, but this was far from the case when it occurred. In the streets of Warsaw ...

Very little, they concluded. At the very same time, on the other side of the world in Poland, the Nazis moved to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto. In a desperate last stand, the remaining Jewish ...

Michael Smuss, the last known living fighter from the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, experienced unthinkable horrors during the Holocaust, confronting death every day as he experienced starvation and ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — At 104 years old, Berysz Aurbach is one of the last surviving Jews who witnessed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Smuggled out just before the uprising began on Passover of ...

Oliver Sears explores Holocaust memorialisation through the prism of his own remarkable and tragic family history. How best, ...

In Riverside Park in Manhattan, a simple slab of stone (called der shteyn in Yiddish) commemorates the Jewish fighters of the ...

SUPPRESSION OF Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 16-19, 1943. In this iconic image, captured Jews are led by Waffen SS soldiers to the assembly point for deportation (Umschlagplatz). (photo credit ...

Holocaust remembrance in Israel is observed on two different dates. The official date is the 27th of Nissan, set by the Knesset because it marks the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The date ...