Nuance is in order regarding Poland and its Jews; Jennifer Stark-Blumenthal calls for a reevaluation of Jews’ attitudes ...

Then German forces took Lwów in 1941. With the help of Ukrainian nationalists, the Nazis immediately carried out mass shootings of Jews and prominent Polish professors, including many non-Jews ...

How the Zionist movement and the Yishuv actively sought to help Polish and other European Jews in the 1930s In European and Holocaust historiography, it is generally believed that neither the Zionist ...

Poland commemorated heroic Catholic families, clergy, and religious sisters who saved Jews from the Holocaust—often at the ...

Dr. Bender's comprehensive study of the Jews of Białystok during WW II and the Holocaust sets an example in this regard: it tells a multifaceted story of a Polish Jewish community, first conquered and ...

In the Autumn of 1941, the Nazis were about to embark on ... The Nazis had created ghettos all over Poland to imprison the Polish Jews. They hated these Jews even more than the Jews from the ...

A Montreal photographer recognized a photo of a beautiful young woman in a scrapbook, sparking a train of other discoveries ...

They had conspired to make fake South American passports for Jews in Poland and beyond, and then delivered the documents, with help from two Polish Jews, to close to hundreds of recipients.

Nine in 10 Polish Jews were killed, many survivors left the country, and those who stayed often concealed their Jewishness under the Soviet Union. With family chains severed and few left to ...