“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 ...

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 ...

During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked ...

The Nazi ghetto system was one of the principal vehicles for the persecution of Jewish and other peoples in German-occupied Europe in World War II. Transport and confinement—twin pillars of the ghetto ...

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 ...

Aron was a scout who ferried warnings to a ghetto. By Richard Sandomir Aron Bell, who had been a teenage member of a daring brigade of Jewish partisans that during World War II attacked German troops ...

ROME -- Rosa Moscato left the impoverished but familiar existence of Rome's Jewish quarter only twice in her life. As a child, she fled to the countryside with her family to escape Nazi persecution, ...

Poland’s ministry of foreign affairs denounced on Friday the defacement in Warsaw the previous day of a World War II monument commemorating Holocaust victims. “The MFA strongly condemns the act of ...