The Great Synagogue of Warsaw, destroyed by the Nazis in 1943 during World War II, will re-appear as an image in blue light, brightening the sky above the city Thursday night. The blue image, a ...

Eighty-one years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, few survivors are still alive to recount the horrors endured there. Pinchas Gutter was just seven years old when Nazi officers came to his childhood ...

People gather at the Paneriai memorial in memory of the Jewish people of Vilnius killed by Nazis during World War II, during the Holocaust Remembrance Day in Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024 ...

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 ...

The heads of state will speak at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial -- located at the heart of the former Jewish district - Copyright AFP Wojtek RADWANSKI The heads of state ...

On the 76th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jews will celebrate Passover in the Warsaw ghetto. Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler, Cheif Rabbi of Chabad-Poland, is hosting a special Passover Seder ...

Israel Gutman, Israel’s most prominent survivor historian, died in Jerusalem on October 1. A native of Warsaw, Gutman was only a teenager when the Germans invaded his Poland. His parents and his older ...

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A group of Jewish organizations has unveiled a monument marking the area where a group of Jewish writers and activists buried an archive of material documenting their Holocaust ...

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, ...

The uprising — the largest single Jewish revolt of World War II — was launched 78 years ago when Nazi Germans tried to transport the population of the Warsaw Ghetto to the Majdanek and Treblinka death ...