July 6, 2017
3:18 am

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)

Jewish leaders protest Trump decision to skip Warsaw Ghetto memorial

As president visits Poland, community leaders highlight a troubling ‘break in tradition’

By AFP

April 19, 2017
10:36 pm

Rabbi Moshe Bloom is seen during a burial ceremony of Torah scrolls on the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery, April 19, 2017. (AFP/Wojtek Radwanski)

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

February 19, 2017
2:20 am

People watch ceremonies marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

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

August 5, 2016
6:06 am

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)

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

May 8, 2016
4:28 pm

Riyad Mansour speaking to reporters on April 6, 2015. (UN/Loey Felipe)

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 Times of Israel staff

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 Times of Israel staff

April 19, 2016
6:56 pm

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)

Polish president leads ceremonies for Warsaw Ghetto fighters

Andrzej Duda pays homage to Jewish ‘heroes’ who fought for freedom against Nazi Germany

By AP

February 22, 2016
8:33 pm

Treblinka survivor Poldek (Leon) Rytz, 89, dances with wife Ester Dyna Rytz, 86, in 2007 in Sweden. (courtesy)

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

February 22, 2016
5:31 pm

President Reuven Rivlin, left, with widow Ada Willenberg at the funeral for Samuel Willenberg on February 22, 2016. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

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 Times of Israel staff

December 3, 2015
1:48 am

Michael Hochberg as a baby with his parents. (Courtesy of Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)

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

November 2, 2015
3:08 pm

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)

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

August 30, 2015
4:39 pm

The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

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

April 20, 2015
1:26 am

Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, Poland. (photo credit: CC BY-SA Adrian Grycuk, Wikimedia Commons)

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

September 8, 2014
12:37 pm

Andrew Borowiec's memoir 'Warsaw Boy' recounts his life as a teenage resistance fighter in the Warsaw Uprising. (courtesy)

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