Map of Warsaw area, showing ... past. 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 ...

A tourist trail tracing the boundary of the former Warsaw ghetto is honouring the memory of the 450 000 Jews killed by the occupying Nazis.

Jewish history museum opens at Warsaw ghetto Opening ceremony coincides with 70th anniversary of uprising • Facility to offer educational activities. By NISSAN TZUR APRIL 17, 2013 22:09 ...

Warsaw - A tourist trail tracing the boundary of the former Warsaw ghetto was inaugurated in the Polish capital Wednesday.

On April 19, the Nazis moved to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto. They met unexpectedly fierce resistance. The Jewish underground fighters managed to hold out until May 15th.

A page from the handwritten last will and testament of 19-year-old Dawid Graber, one of the Jewish volunteers who hid the Ringelblum Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto before German forces liquidated it ...

This week the Jewish world commemorated Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the anniversary of the fall of the Warsaw Ghetto. A quick search on the Internet showed nearly 10,000 sites with ...

Mi Polin, a company in Warsaw, specializes in reproducing traces of the traditional Jewish prayer containers pried off door frames during World War II.

More than 400,000 Jewish people were crammed into the 1.3-square-mile (3.4 square kilometers) ghetto in the Nazi-occupied country, and severe overcrowding, exposure to the elements and starvation ...

At its height, around 450,000 people were crammed behind the walls of the 307-hectare (758-acre) ghetto centred on Warsaw's traditional Jewish quarter. About 100,000 died inside from starvation ...