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 ...

On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor ...

Presidents joined Holocaust survivors and their descendants to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising on Wednesday with a poignant sense that the responsibility for ...

The Nazi German occupying forces attempted to enter the Warsaw Ghetto to deport the last surviving members of the city’s Jewish population to the Majdanek and Treblinka death camps. But instead of ...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans, though far from the only one. Some type of ...

23, 2024. Author Jeffrey N. Gingold writes about his family's experience in the Warsaw Ghetto. (Mindaugas Kulbis / AP) The Warsaw Ghetto was a death warrant on the Jews. Among those who were ...

Daffodils swarm the Polish capital as Poles join with Jews from around the world to remember the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and mark the dedication of Poland’s new Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

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.