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 ...

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 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 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 ...

Poland continues to condemn Ukrainian migrant Natalia Panchenko, who openly threatens Poles with arson attacks on houses and ...

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 ...

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 ...

During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary is on PBS. A discussion I led is on YouTube ...

At midnight on the edge of a Polish ghetto, a hooded stranger led four rabbis down a dark alley to show them something few knew existed. The shul that time forgot - The Jewish Chronicle LOGIN ...

The Pianist is based on the memoirs of Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived the Warsaw ghetto, and it’s Roman Polanski’s strongest and most personally felt movie. This should not ...