November 18, 2013
5:49 pm

Aerial view of the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw (photo credit: courtesy)

Opposition arises to planned Warsaw Ghetto monument

Proposed site for memorial to Polish rescuers during Holocaust angers some of country’s Jews

By JTA

September 18, 2013
8:21 pm

This Jan 27, 2012 file photo shows Holocaust survivor Marcel Reich-Ranicki speakinh during a Holocaust hour of remembrance at the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin. (Photo credit: AP/Michael Sohn, File)

Holocaust survivor, top German lit critic dies

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who grew up in Poland and Nazi Germany and survived the Warsaw Ghetto, passes away at age 93

By Geir Moulson

September 10, 2013
7:15 pm

Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. (courtesy of the USHMM)

Poles admit destroying WWII Jewish hideout

Couple pleads guilty to ruining site listed by authorities in 1999 as a historic monument

By AP

August 4, 2013
6:56 pm

The Treblinka extermination camp. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Escapee’s daughter to design Treblinka education center

Israeli architect Orit Willenberg-Giladi named in ceremony last week; her father Samuel is camp’s last known survivor

June 21, 2013
3:52 pm

Simha Rotem, one of the last living Warsaw Ghetto fighters, speaks in front of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial, during a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday (photo credit: AP/Alik Keplicz)

Memorial to Warsaw Ghetto uprising is vandalized

Words ‘Jude Raus’ discovered Wednesday at the Anielewicz Mound

May 29, 2013
4:39 pm

Prof. Krzysztof Jasiewicz (photo credit: Polish Photography Agency/Polska Agencja Fotografów)

Polish professor axed for blaming Holocaust on Jews

Historian says he’ll appeal academy decision to oust him over remarks that Jews ‘worked for centuries’ to bring about Shoah

May 21, 2013
9:51 pm

Warsaw Ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93

Spiegel fought in the 1943 anti-Nazi uprising, was ‘forced by circumstances’ to do extraordinary things, son says

April 25, 2013
7:43 pm

Cohen family patriarch, Roger. (photo credit: courtesy Six Island Productions)

The best little Jewish strip joint in Canada

Getting a lap dance for his bar mitzvah was just part of life for filmmaker Shawney Cohen, whose documentary debuts this week

By Jordan Hoffman

April 19, 2013
1:50 pm

Warsaw marks 70th anniversary of ghetto uprising

Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski leads ceremony at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes

By Vanessa Gera

April 18, 2013
10:00 pm

Warsaw Ghetto survivor Jakub Gutenbaum, 83, in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, April 18, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Alik Keplicz)

Warsaw Ghetto survivor recalls living through inferno

Jakub Gutenbaum was 13 when the uprising broke out; later he survived Majdanek

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

April 18, 2013
8:43 pm

Neglected graves in an abandoned Warsaw Jewish graveyard. (Illustrative photo credit: AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s undead gravestones

From the web As part of its Warsaw Uprising anniversary coverage, Tablet explores photographer Łukasz Baksik’s hunt for repurposed burial markers

April 18, 2013
8:42 pm

The most famous image out of the Warsaw Ghetto. (photo credit: courtesy of the USHMM)

The ultimate emblem of resistance: the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

On the revolt’s 70th anniversary, exploring how Jews fought to determine their own fates and how that ethos influenced Israel

By Matt Lebovic

April 13, 2013
2:23 am

People enter the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw, Poland (photo credit:AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Warsaw Ghetto memorial reflects a changing Poland

Museum exhibits to celebrate centuries of Jewish life, confront Poles with their country’s own dark chapters of anti-Semitism