But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead ...
Simcha Rotem, a fighter who smuggled others out of the burning ghetto through sewage ... today and bow to the courageous fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto,” Steinmeier said.
The Nazis murdered Shapira’s children and forced the rabbi into the Warsaw Ghetto, where he ran a secret ... “It’s like the burning bush in the Torah,” Levine Grater said.
The Warsaw Ghetto was a death warrant. Among those who were forcibly collected and sealed to die within its walls was my ...
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 ...
The Umschlagplatz memorializes the more than 300,000 people who were sent from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp by the Nazis. Getty Images The Umschlagplatz stands along the ...
The rally in Kalisz, a city of about 100,000 inhabitants situated 120 miles southwest of Warsaw, was part of a series of nationalist events on Nov. 11, National Independence Day, the anniversary ...
A memorial to Jews deported from the Warsaw Ghetto was defaced with graffiti appearing to equate the Holocaust with the war in Gaza. The graffiti makes Warsaw’s Umschlagplatz memorial the latest ...
Some 700 participants walked to a hospital where doctors gave morphine to some children, allowing them to die in their beds rather than be transported to death camps. WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Some ...