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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
In this photo taken on April 19, 2016 people gather in front of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising monument holding daffodils to mark the Warsaw Ghetto uprising's 73th anniversary. (AFP PHOTO / WOJTEK RADWANSKI)
April 19, 2018, 12:28 pm
With daffodils, Poland marks 75th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
As Poles wear paper flowers as symbol of mourning, survivor says he is 'terrified by the rebirth of fascism and nationalism' in country
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and Vanessa Gera
Warsaw Ghetto survivor Marian Kalwary, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
April 19, 2018, 2:27 am
75 years after fall of Warsaw ghetto, survivor worries about rising nationalism
Marian Kalwary says he sees a rise in modern Poland of the same ideas that drove Nazi Germany to start World War II and the Holocaust
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Warsaw Ghetto Holocaust survivor, Krystyna Budnicka poses on April 16, 2018 in front of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw. (AFP PHOTO/JANEK SKARZYNSKI)
April 18, 2018, 5:53 am
75 years after Warsaw ghetto’s end, survivor recalls losing family in uprising
Krystyna Budnicka lost all seven siblings in the Holocaust; she made it out alive by hiding in an underground bunker and then in the Polish capital's sewer system
By Bernard OSSER
In this Tuesday, April 10, 2018 photo, Baruch Shub, a Holocaust survivor, poses for a photo at his apartment in a senior citizens' home in Kfar Saba, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 12, 2018, 3:36 am
As numbers dwindle, Jews who fought Nazis recall struggle
As some European nations try to rewrite their history, 91-year-old Yitzhak Arad warns, 'We are fading away, so it will be up to the next generation to continue this battle'
By Aron Heller
A fragment of the former Warsaw Ghetto wall in Sienna 53 street that regional official for preservation of historical sites wants put on a list of protected historical monuments, in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 21, 2018, 6:24 am
Parts of Warsaw Ghetto wall to become historic monuments
Conservation officials say sections of red brick wall still standing should be protected as a witness to history and preserved for future generations
By AP
Illustrative: Jews are seen lining up in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. (Courtesy of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives via JTA)
November 17, 2017, 10:03 pm
Poland to build Warsaw Ghetto museum
Exhibit to be housed in building that served as a children's hospital for Jews during Nazi occupation
By AFP
Barbed wire (via iStock)
September 27, 2017, 11:06 am
Jewish resistance, body and soul
'When they kick in your front door, how you gonna come? Hands on your head or on the trigger of your gun?'
By Brent Chaim Spodek
Former Warsaw Ghetto fighter Simcha Rotem, center, in 2013. (CC_BY-SA:Wikimedia/Meron Derso)
September 25, 2017, 8:02 am
Former Warsaw Ghetto fighter wins lawsuit over published love letters
Simcha Rotem claimed he never gave permission for the personal missives to be included in a book
By JTA
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
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