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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Harvey Weinstein in Sun Valley, Idaho, July 12, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
August 11, 2017, 1:22 am
Harvey Weinstein to direct film on Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Prolific Oscar-winning producer: 'I guess it is personal – I lost eight great aunts and uncles to Auschwitz'
By JTA
US President Donald Trump is met by a guard of honor after he stepped off Air Force One upon arrival at Chopin Airport in Warsaw, Poland, July 5, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)
July 6, 2017, 3:18 am
Jewish leaders protest Trump decision to skip Warsaw Ghetto memorial
As president visits Poland, community leaders highlight a troubling 'break in tradition'
By AFP
Rabbi Moshe Bloom is seen during a burial ceremony of Torah scrolls on the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery, April 19, 2017. (AFP/Wojtek Radwanski)
April 19, 2017, 10:36 pm
Warsaw Jews bury old Torahs on ghetto uprising anniversary
Community inters fragments of damaged pre-war scrolls in ritual some believe had not been carried out there since the Holocaust
By AFP
People watch ceremonies marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, January 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
February 19, 2017, 2:20 am
Do Holocaust memories eclipse WWI tragedy for Warsaw’s Jews?
In his newest book, historian Robert Blobaum examines the city's tumultuous history of occupation and the effects it had on Jewish-Christian relations during trying times
By JP O’ Malley
Serena Kassow and her father, Samuel Kassow, on the set of 'Who Will Write Our History?' in Poland, based on Samuel Kassow's book about the 'Oneg Shabbat' archive, May 2016. (Courtesy)
August 5, 2016, 6:06 am
Warsaw ghetto’s secret archive goes Hollywood
New film based on two recovered document troves -- out of three buried during the Holocaust -- depicts the ‘Oneg Shabbat’ archive’s creators, few of whom survived the Nazi regime
By Matt Lebovic
Riyad Mansour speaking to reporters on April 6, 2015. (UN/Loey Felipe)
May 8, 2016, 4:28 pm
US expresses ‘deep concern’ at Palestinian envoy comparing IDF to Nazis
State Department censure comes after Riyad Mansour invokes suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in debate on Palestinian stone-throwers
By JTA and TOI staff
Riyad Mansour speaking to reporters on April 6, 2015. (UN/Loey Felipe)
April 27, 2016, 10:33 pm
PA envoy says Israel, like Nazis, labels opponents as terrorists
Israel's UN ambassador: 'Despicable' comparison warrants condemnation from international community
By TOI staff
Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks during the official ceremony marking the 73rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
April 19, 2016, 6:56 pm
Polish president leads ceremonies for Warsaw Ghetto fighters
Andrzej Duda pays homage to Jewish 'heroes' who fought for freedom against Nazi Germany
By AP
Treblinka survivor Poldek (Leon) Rytz, 89, dances with wife Ester Dyna Rytz, 86, in 2007 in Sweden. (courtesy)
February 22, 2016, 8:33 pm
There are still Treblinka survivors living. One tells his tale
Now in Sweden, 89-year-old Leon 'Poldek' Rytz remains active in spreading his tale of survival in the face of genocide
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
President Reuven Rivlin, left, with widow Ada Willenberg at the funeral for Samuel Willenberg on February 22, 2016. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
February 22, 2016, 5:31 pm
President pays tribute as last survivor of Treblinka revolt is laid to rest
Samuel Willenberg, who was 19 when he was sent to the Nazi death camp, escaped and went on to fight in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
By TOI staff
Michael Hochberg as a baby with his parents. (Courtesy of Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)
December 3, 2015, 1:48 am
Man meets Polish woman who saved him from Nazis
Michael Hochberg will spend Hanukkah in NY with Krystyna Jakubowska, to celebrate his own personal miracle of survival
By Gabe Friedman
In Warsaw, some 200 Israelis, Poles and American college students took part in an 'active memory' event commemorating 75 years since the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto, October 31, 2015. (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
November 2, 2015, 3:08 pm
Warsaw ghetto’s creation marked in ‘active memory’ vigil
Atop the ruins of the ghetto fighters’ former command bunker, Jewish students and Poles mark the 75th anniversary of the notorious ghetto’s establishment
By Matt Lebovic
The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 30, 2015, 4:39 pm
Memorial to saviors of the Jews stirs mixed emotions in Poland
Critics say monument will misrepresent country's largely indifferent response to plight of 3.3 million Jewish Poles during WWII
By Vanessa Gera
Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, Poland. (CC BY-SA/Adrian Grycuk/Wikimedia Commons)
April 20, 2015, 1:26 am
Poles mark 72nd anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Hundreds gather by monument to heroes outside Museum of the History of Polish Jews in capital
By JTA
Andrew Borowiec's memoir 'Warsaw Boy' recounts his life as a teenage resistance fighter in the Warsaw Uprising. (courtesy)
September 8, 2014, 12:37 pm
Babe in arms: The tale of a teenaged resistance fighter
70 years in the making, Andrew Borowiec's memoir 'Warsaw Boy' began on a WWII toilet paper roll
By JP O’ Malley
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