The gruesome story of the Jewish ghettos during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe in the dark days of World War II, based on the records written by their inhabitants, who bear witness to the human ...

Few Jews had access to weapons in the Warsaw Ghetto, but they resisted nonetheless. In the Warsaw Ghetto, as in the more than 1200 ghettos into which the Germans forced the Jewish population during ...

“Amid Falling Walls,” a new production from the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, brings to life poetry and songs created by Jews during the Holocaust. (New York Jewish Week) – “Humanity’s most ...

EVIL AGAIN. THE SISTERS ARE WELL KNOWN IN ITALY AS DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK FOUND OUT WHILE WALKING THROUGH ROME’S JEWISH GHETTO. IT’S A PLACE WHERE BEAUTY AND TRAGEDY INTERTWINE, AND WHERE ONE ONLY HAS TO ...

They hid revolvers in teddy bears, they smuggled explosives in their underwear, they flung Molotov cocktails, they bombed German supply trains, they distributed underground bulletins, and they ...

After a brief sequence of Nazi rallies (including shots from Triumph of the Will), German footage of the invasion of Poland, and Julien Bryan footage of the siege of Warsaw in September 1939, this ...

Rachel (Rokhl) Auerbach believed writing about the Warsaw Ghetto’s Jews was a debt she owed to the dead. Eighty years after the Nazis “liquidated” most the city’s Jews in the Holocaust, Auerbach’s ...

Princeton University professor of sociology Mitchell Duneier emphasized both the negative history and modern-day understanding of ghettos in the United States in a discussion hosted by the Center for ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Even after decades of in-depth Holocaust research, excruciating details are only now emerging about more than 1,100 German-run ghettos in Eastern Europe where the Nazis murdered ...