Today, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which a group of brave Jews stood up against the German Nazi oppressors who occupied Poland in World War II. It is our duty ...

Tova Gutstein was born in Warsaw the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. She was 10 years old when the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto launched the first act of collective defiance against the Nazis in ...

As the Holocaust recedes in time, the complexities and varieties of Jewish resistance are moving into sharper focus. Rebellion, we now realize, wasn’t limited to taking up arms, committing sabotage, ...

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 homemade ...

For almost 30 days, a starving, ill-equipped, and almost completely untrained group of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto fought off thousands of German troops, including the supposedly elite SS. These men and ...

American Jewish History, Vol. 103, No. 2 (April 2019), pp. 203-225 (23 pages) Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (London: Verso, 2000) ...

In April 2023, at a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, quoted from a diary written in the hell leading up to that ...

Anna Stupnicka-Bando, left, a Polish Christian honored for saving Jews, walks with Waclaw Kornblum, right, a Polish Holocaust survivor, at a ceremony for the burial of a "time capsule" on the grounds ...

A ceremony commemorating the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto was held in the city for the first time. Sunday’s ceremony marked the 70th anniversary of the day that the Germans began mass deportations ...

WE MUST NOT THINK OF OURSELVES. By Lauren Grodstein. Algonquin Books. 304 pages. $29. The Oneg Shabbat archive was a secret project of Jewish prisoners in the Warsaw Ghetto to record their histories ...

Tova Gutstein was born in Warsaw the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. She was 10 years old when the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto launched the first act of collective defiance against the Nazis in ...