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Avenging angel risked her life to try to save Warsaw’s Jews — and lived to write about it

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:48:06 +0000

Updated English translation of Vladka Meed's 1948 Yiddish memoir, 'On Both Sides of the Wall,' breathes new life into her experiences with the Jewish resistance against the Nazis

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In German high society, secret Nazi-hating rebels saved Jews, tried to end Hitler’s regime

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 06:05:31 +0000

Jonathan Freedland's new book 'The Traitors Circle' examines the Solf Circle, a clandestine group including countesses, diplomats and politicians - and their betrayal and dark fate

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Then and now, ‘impudent Jews’ fought perpetrators ‘in a hundred different manners’

Sat, 27 Jan 2024 14:55:17 +0000

As the Jewish state defends itself against Hamas, German historian publishes book on largely forgotten 'impudent Jews' who resisted Nazis despite harsh consequences

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Jerusalem’s Jewish Film Week going ahead, adjusted for war

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:16:02 +0000

The Jerusalem Cinematheque's annual Hannukah-period film festival marks its 25th year; free admission for evacuees from southern and northern communities

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Yad Vashem marks 80 years since Warsaw Ghetto Uprising for Yom HaShoah remembrance

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 01:06:02 +0000

The legendary Warsaw revolt and other acts of Jewish resistance -- both physical and spiritual -- are focus of this year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration at Yad Vashem

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Oscar-qualifying short film strikes chord with story of heroic young WWII partisan

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:25:55 +0000

Made as a film school thesis project, 'NAKAM' is inspired by Motele Schlein, who was killed in a Nazi ambush, but whose violin survived as symbol of resistance and is still played

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Film lauds WWII partisan chief who found Hitler’s V2s, died in Israel in obscurity

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 06:10:56 +0000

Director Roman Shumunov tells the story of Leonid Berenshtein, who climbed the ranks in the underground, eventually discovering the factory producing Hitler's dreaded V2 rockets

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Fascist Italy, Church under ‘Hitler’s Pope’ took steps to save Jews, claims author

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 20:44:57 +0000

In his new book, 'Syndrome K,' British author Christian Jennings paints a complex picture of fear, resistance, and covert humanitarianism in a country torn asunder by the Nazis

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How 80 years ago, Jewish teens rescued the Kaunas Ghetto’s holy books

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 02:01:20 +0000

In the Nazis’ Feb. 1942 ‘Books Aktion,’ Jews were ordered to hand over all books. Now, the history of resistance efforts that saved countless works is in danger of being forgotten

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A courageous American woman led the largest resistance group in Nazi Germany

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:43:13 +0000

In the bestseller 'All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days,' author Rebecca Donner recounts the true story of her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, who gave her life to fight fascism

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Singer Shlomo Artzi’s father honored for rescuing thousands of Jews in Holocaust

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:22:07 +0000

Yitzhak Artzi recognized for his role as head of the Jewish resistance in Romania, where he smuggled thousands of children out of Transnistria

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Smuggler, fighter, courier, spy: How Jewish women defied the Nazis in Poland

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:08:19 +0000

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

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Using rare archival films, Ukrainian director forces viewers to face Babyn Yar

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 06:33:32 +0000

Filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa grew up in ignorance close to site of Holocaust massacre. Now he's creating 24 short films about the history -- and its erasure -- at the notorious ravine

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Jerusalem Jewish film fest to open with Rogen’s ‘American Pickle’

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:20:43 +0000

Festival's 22nd year includes movies about identity, faith, religion and relationships

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Love, danger fill epic WWII story revealed by Poland’s oldest rescuer of Jews

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 13:09:31 +0000

100-year-old Jozef Walaszczyk tells about brushes with death, work with the Polish underground, and getting false papers for his Jewish girlfriend, saving her and dozens of others

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