Your guide will provide context and recount stories of the extreme conditions inside the Warsaw Ghetto where the Jewish ...

In the 1930s, the area housed the bulk of Warsaw's Jewish population. By late 1940, the Nazis (who occupied Poland at the time) turned the region into a ghetto, and its residents either died from ...

Culture.pl’s selection of amazing photos from the 1870s take you on a tour of a Warsaw from before the dramatic ... the street was made part of the Warsaw Ghetto established by the occupying German ...

(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 ...

This is Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery and one of the largest ... the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Some gravestones stand tall and pristine. But deeper into the cemetery ...

During World War II, imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, they never stopped being artists. In poetry, he was a bitter observer of life in Poland in the 1930s, including the changes in Polish-Jewish ...

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.

Thirty-nine postcards sent during World War II from the Warsaw Ghetto have become part of the permanent collection at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. The acquisition of the postcards ...

WARSAW (JTA) — In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves. This is Warsaw’s main Jewish ...

“Voices From the Warsaw Ghetto,” edited by David Roskies ’69 ... may lie under what is now the Chinese embassy in Warsaw. Roskies, a professor of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary, ...

WARSAW (JTA) — In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves. This is Warsaw’s main Jewish ...