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 following timeline and maps describe a few instances ... the Nazis moved to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto. They met unexpectedly fierce resistance. The Jewish underground fighters managed ...

WARSAW (JTA) — In a carriage bound for the ... Sometimes Zabinski would smuggle pig meat into the Jewish ghetto, where the prohibition on its consumption had been largely abandoned because ...

a Warsaw firefighter whose brigade was tasked with making sure the fire in the ghetto did not spread to the “Aryan” side of the city as the Nazis put down the Jewish revolt. An estimated ...

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 ...

A memorial in Poland dedicated to the memory of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto has been defaced, marking yet another instance of vandalism targeting Holocaust memorials in the country.

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.

Rokhl Oyerbakh, however, pushed back against the consolidation of Yiddish culture in cosmopolitan strongholds and worked to diversify this map. Her first stop ... people imprisoned in the Warsaw ...