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 ...

The Ringelblum Archives consist of a collection of 1680 archival units (approx. 25,000 pages) retrieved from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. The Archives comprise government documents, materials ...

Between April 19 and May 16, 1943, the most significant acts of Jewish resistance during World War II took place in the Warsaw ghetto in Nazi German-occupied Poland. Armed with smuggled and ...

One of the last surviving members of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance has told CNN the world must never forget the bravery of those who stood up to the Nazis, 80 years after World War II’s largest ...

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 ...

Poland’s ministry of foreign affairs denounced on Friday the defacement in Warsaw the previous day of a World War II monument commemorating Holocaust victims. “The MFA strongly condemns the ...

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 ...

A meeting marking the 15th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt was held here today under the auspices of the Memorial for the Unknown Jewish Martyr. The meeting, which also memorialized the ...