This is the story of the ghetto and its uprising. Before the outbreak of World War II, Poland was home to more than three million Jews – they accounted for 10% of the total population and a third of ...

He still recalls, word-for-word, the prayers and Torah verses he learned in his local religious school in Poland. When World War II broke out, Aurbach was just 14 years old. In the Warsaw Ghetto ...

A Polish soldier lays a wreath at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes on the 82nd anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto ...

During the months of April and May 1943, a celebratory atmosphere took hold outside the Warsaw Ghetto’s walls. Children ...

One month after the shameful meeting of the Israeli government sponsored far right gathering in Israel to ‘combat antisemitism’, an event ...

Church bells tolled, sirens wailed, prayers were said and symbolic paper daffodils were handed out on the streets of the ...

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 ...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 was the largest armed Jewish uprising during the Second World War. Today, the daffodil has ...

Litzmannstadt was the Nazi name for Łódź, which before the war was a hub of the Polish textile and fashion industry. The ghetto, established by the Germans in February 1940, was the second ...

I gave the translation to two people who know a lot about translated literature, but do not know Polish, before I gave it to the publisher, because I wanted their reactions. And they both said: if you ...