On 19th April 1943, smoke covered the skies over central Warsaw. The Nazi German occupying forces attempted to enter the Warsaw Ghetto to deport the last surviving members of the city’s Jewish ...

The Second World War saw the majority of Europe succumb to Nazi occupation. The brutal repression that followed triggered heroic resistance, often by groups with little chance of success.

On this day in 1943, a band of Jewish resistance fighters launched an armed insurrection against the Nazis. They were proud socialists and internationalists. On the eve of Passover 1943 — the ...

The story of the Oyneg Shabes archive. Between 1940 and 1943 a group of dedicated writers, led by historian Emanuel Ringeblum, secretly recorded daily Jewish existence in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Daffodils swarm the Polish capital as Poles join with Jews from around the world to remember the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and mark the dedication of Poland’s new Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

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 ...

Each year, on 19th April, in commemoration of the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, thousands of daffodils appear on the streets of Warsaw. These flowers, however, are made of paper, and ...