Before the 1939 German invasion, one-third of the Warsaw population was Jewish. At its peak, the ghetto was packed with 400,000 Jews in an area less than 2.4% of the city.

The first limited armed conflict in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising took place on Jan. 18, 1943, as sparsely armed Jewish families took heavy losses, but inflicted dozens of casualties on Nazi soldiers.

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 ...

A second round of deportations, begun on April 19, 1943, the day before Passover, sparked the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Approximately 650 Jewish fighters, most of whom were untrained, staged their ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, Warsaw’s Jewish history museum presented a group of photographs taken in secret during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, some of which have never been seen before ...

The presidents of Germany, Poland and Israel, joined by Holocaust survivors and their descendants, are marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Established by the Germans in October 1940, the Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Europe. About 400,000 Jews were sealed off from the rest of the Polish capital behind ...

The Warsaw Ghetto uprising would later inspire more acts of resistance in World War II. Jewish resistance often took the form of aid and rescue. Established in 1940, Warsaw held about 400,000 Jews ...

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 ...