The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/ghetto/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:33:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png ghetto | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/ghetto/ 32 32 Clothing historian stitches together Holocaust history by focusing on ‘women’s work’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/clothing-historian-stitches-together-holocaust-history-by-focusing-on-womens-work/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:59:57 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3519905 Nonfiction 'Four Red Sweaters' tells wartime stories of four young Jewish women while examining larger questions such as Nazis' circular economy and perpetrator psychology

The post Clothing historian stitches together Holocaust history by focusing on ‘women’s work’ appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> Last Terezin survivors memorialized by US photographer in decade-long project https://www.timesofisrael.com/last-terezin-survivors-memorialized-by-us-photographer-in-decade-long-project/ Mon, 06 May 2024 00:48:18 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=3278482 Dennis Darling's recently published large-format book includes black-and-white portraits and moving testimonies of Jews who were children and teens in Nazi ghetto near Prague

The post Last Terezin survivors memorialized by US photographer in decade-long project appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> Venice’s frayed, shrinking 500-year-old Jewish Ghetto is planning a renaissance https://www.timesofisrael.com/venices-frayed-shrinking-500-year-old-jewish-ghetto-is-planning-a-renaissance/ Sat, 23 Apr 2022 01:22:45 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2749404 Down from a pre-Holocaust peak of 5,000, the city's 450 remaining Jews face numerous struggles, including rising water levels. They're launching a grassroots revitalization effort

The post Venice’s frayed, shrinking 500-year-old Jewish Ghetto is planning a renaissance appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> Smuggler, fighter, courier, spy: How Jewish women defied the Nazis in Poland https://www.timesofisrael.com/smuggler-fighter-courier-spy-how-jewish-women-defied-the-nazis-in-poland/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:08:19 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2517499 In 'The Light of Days,' author Judy Batalion tells the extraordinary tale of myriad brave females who took leading roles in clandestine, armed struggle in ghettos and forests

The post Smuggler, fighter, courier, spy: How Jewish women defied the Nazis in Poland appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> From Venice, to Nazis, to US inner cities — how the ghetto got its name https://www.timesofisrael.com/from-venice-to-nazis-to-us-inner-cities-how-the-ghetto-got-its-name/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:47:10 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2216693 Prof. Daniel B. Schwartz studies the evolution of a word that's kept outsiders out and insiders in -- voluntarily and involuntarily -- and been used as a tool for over 500 years

The post From Venice, to Nazis, to US inner cities — how the ghetto got its name appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> Damaged but not drowned, Venice Jewish ghetto counts its blessings after flood https://www.timesofisrael.com/damaged-but-not-drowned-venice-jewish-ghetto-counts-blessings-after-record-flood/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 03:53:41 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2215862 November's record deluge caused an estimated billion dollars in damage citywide, but the historic enclave central to a close-knit community got off relatively easy

The post Damaged but not drowned, Venice Jewish ghetto counts its blessings after flood appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> Remains of hundreds of slain victims discovered at former Belarus Jewish ghetto https://www.timesofisrael.com/remains-of-hundreds-of-slain-victims-discovered-at-former-belarus-jewish-ghetto/ Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:43:24 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2023861 Bodies of men, women and children found with gunshot wounds to their skulls; Nazis killed 800,000 Jews in the country during WWII

The post Remains of hundreds of slain victims discovered at former Belarus Jewish ghetto appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> Abbas adviser compares Israeli security at Temple Mount to Nazism, Inquisition https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-adviser-compares-israeli-security-at-temple-mount-to-nazism-inquisition/ Sat, 07 Jul 2018 07:23:44 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1884681 Mahmoud Habbash laments restrictions on Muslim access to Al-Aqsa Mosque: 'Are they trying to do to others what was done to them?'

The post Abbas adviser compares Israeli security at Temple Mount to Nazism, Inquisition appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> The lost diary of Poland’s ‘Anne Frank’: An untold testament of a truncated life https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-lost-diary-of-polands-anne-frank-an-untold-testament-of-a-truncated-life/ Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:33:40 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1827445 For decades, few people knew of Renia Spiegel or her journal. The Holocaust victim's sister and a determined filmmaker are working to change that

The post The lost diary of Poland’s ‘Anne Frank’: An untold testament of a truncated life appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> Father of Polish PM says Jews gladly moved to ghettos, aided Germans https://www.timesofisrael.com/father-of-polish-pm-says-jews-gladly-moved-to-ghettos/ Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:45:29 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1814329 Kornel Morawiecki asserts Jews went themselves because they were told that they would not have to deal with 'those nasty Poles' during Holocaust

The post Father of Polish PM says Jews gladly moved to ghettos, aided Germans appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> Boston Holocaust memorial rededicated after vandalism https://www.timesofisrael.com/boston-holocaust-memorial-rededicated-after-vandalism/ Wed, 12 Jul 2017 09:16:21 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1656574 After one of the Shoah memorial's glass towers was shattered last month, community leaders gather to unveil repairs and praise Boston's response to the incident

The post Boston Holocaust memorial rededicated after vandalism appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> US Holocaust museum releases online encyclopedia of Nazi sites https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-holocaust-museum-releases-online-encyclopedia-on-nazi-sites/ Sun, 04 Jun 2017 19:25:28 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1632561 Two volumes covering early concentration camps, ghettos now available; third part to come out in 2018

The post US Holocaust museum releases online encyclopedia of Nazi sites appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> Romania to raise payments for Holocaust survivors https://www.timesofisrael.com/romania-to-raise-payments-for-holocaust-survivors/ Mon, 22 May 2017 04:32:16 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1623841 From July, state to pay up to $98 per month for each year of a person's deportation or detention

The post Romania to raise payments for Holocaust survivors appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> Hamburg unveils memorial to Jews, Roma killed in Holocaust https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamburg-unveils-memorial-to-jews-roma-killed-in-holocaust/ Wed, 10 May 2017 15:33:22 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1616587 Plaque lists names of thousands who were deported from train station to death camps between 1939 and 1945

The post Hamburg unveils memorial to Jews, Roma killed in Holocaust appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]> Alone in life, some Holocaust survivors pass with no one to bury them https://www.timesofisrael.com/alone-in-life-some-holocaust-survivors-pass-with-no-one-to-bury-them/ Mon, 24 Apr 2017 03:10:46 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1605369 For every funeral of a family-less survivor attended by 100s of strangers, there are those buried with barely enough people present for kaddish

The post Alone in life, some Holocaust survivors pass with no one to bury them appeared first on The Times of Israel.

]]>