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Warsaw Ghetto
Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. (Courtesy of USHMM)
April 27, 2018, 3:31 pm
Why my mother wouldn’t let Yiddish die
She needed poetry to pay tribute to her childhood memories of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the pain of their loss
By Fay Rosenfeld
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
People laying flowers at Umschlagplatz in the Warsaw Ghetto at a monument on the site from which Jews were deported to Treblinka. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)
March 8, 2018, 2:06 am
Poland: Warsaw Ghetto museum will show the ‘mutual love’ between Poles, Jews
Culture minister says new institution will underline the 'solidarity, fraternity, historical truth too' in relationship between two peoples
By AFP
Screenshots from YouTube videos related to the Holocaust history dispute between Israel and Poland. At left, a video from the Polish government's #GermanDeathCamps campaign. At right, a video produced by the Israeli group 'J-nerations,' February 2018.
February 23, 2018, 9:24 am
Poland-Israel Holocaust dispute hits the court of viral YouTube videos
Amid the diplomatic feud over Poland's new 'anti-defamation' law, Jewish activists push back on the Polish government for 'white-washing' anti-Semitism
By Matt Lebovic
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
Observers placing daffodils at the grave of Marek Edelman, a commander of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in Warsaw's Jewish cemetery. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)
January 21, 2018, 4:23 pm
Underground remains of Warsaw ghetto in line for protected status
Protection would require archaeological supervision during all earthworks in area, recording of finds
By JTA
Holocaust survivor Eliahu Pietruszka, right, embraces his nephew Alexandre Pietruszka as they meet for the first time in Kfar Saba, Israel, November 16, 2017. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
November 19, 2017, 8:25 pm
102-year-old Holocaust survivor reunites with newly discovered nephew
Eliahu Pietruszka believed his brother, who escaped Warsaw ghetto, had died in a Russian labor camp, but, generations later, a Yad Vashem genealogy project led to incredible news
By Aron Heller
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
A milk jug on display at the Permanent Exhibition 'What We Were Unable To Shout Out To The World' of the underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, a few days before its public opening in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, November 13, 2017. (AFP/Wojtek RADWANSKI)
November 14, 2017, 2:48 pm
Warsaw Ghetto Jews’ secret archive goes on display
Thousands of documents including newspapers, ration coupons, postcards, and medical prescriptions were stashed away in milk jugs
By Bernard OSSER
Scarlett Johansson learning about her ancestry on 'Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.' (Screenshot from 'Finding Your Roots')
November 3, 2017, 7:37 pm
Watching PBS show, Jewish family learn they are related to Scarlett Johansson
Watching actress tear up on 'Finding Your Roots,' member of family split between Israel, US recognizes name of Holocaust victim as a common ancestor
By Curt Schleier
Actress Scarlett Johansson learns of her family history on the PBS show 'Finding Your Roots,' scheduled to air on October 31, 2017. (screen capture)
October 28, 2017, 1:44 pm
Scarlett Johansson learns of family Holocaust tragedy from genealogy show
In forthcoming episode of 'Finding Your Roots,' US Jewish actress tearfully finds out her great uncle and his family perished in the Warsaw Ghetto
By TOI staff
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
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