Before being thrown into the abyss of Auschwitz, many Polish Jews passed through ghettos like the one in Krakow, where, after being stripped of all their belongings, they lived in overcrowded ...

But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead of submitting meekly to the jackboots. Among them were the heroes of the ...

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 ...

The Polish foreign ministry on Friday condemned "an act of vandalism" after a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was sprayed with paint, an incident that drew protest from the Israeli ambassador.

The POLIN museum, which opened on the 70th anniversary of the ghetto uprising 10 years ago to tell the history of Polish Jews, said the photographs suggest that Grzywaczewski understood the ...

She said that it was mostly injured Polish soldiers who were there when she left. At age 7, my father was forcibly confined to one room in the Warsaw Ghetto, along with his parents, an aunt and ...

The Nazi authorities have herded 1,350,000 Jews into 11 ghettos in various parts of occupied Poland, according to figures compiled by Polish Jewish circles here on the basis of official statistics.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle ... "we received our first transport of weapons "from the Polish Home Army. "It was not much. "There were only 10 pistols in the whole ...

After German dictator Adolf Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, Nazis began segregating millions of Jews in Eastern Europe into sections of towns and cities designated "ghettos," eventually ...

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 ...