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Topic: Warsaw Ghetto

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

Boruch Spiegel (photo credit: AP)

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

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)

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

By Vanessa Gera

April 10, 2013
3:42 pm

Marian Marzynski remained in Poland after the war but left following a wave of anti-Semitism in the late '60s. (WGBH via JTA)

Emmy winner shares WWII ‘Lie’ that saved his life

In a PBS documentary, director Marian Marzynski tells his story of survival — first in the Warsaw Ghetto, then as an altar boy

By Penny Schwartz

April 7, 2013
2:28 pm

In this April 4, 2013 photo, Warsaw Ghetto Holocaust survivor Aliza Vitis-Shomron, nee Mendel, holds a photograph of herself when she was about 17 years old as she sits in her living room in Kibbutz Givat Oz, Israel. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Warsaw ghetto survivor carries out 70-year-old mission

Aliza Mendel was only 14 when she was ordered to escape and tell the world how her fellow Jews died fighting the Nazis

By Aron Heller

April 2, 2013
2:32 pm

Peretz Hochman circa 1942. (photo credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Warsaw Ghetto hero, a ‘Cigarette Seller,’ dies

Polish resistance fighter Peretz Hochman’s wife, Sima, will light his torch at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

March 29, 2013
5:03 am

Undated photo depicts Greta (Katharina Schuettler) walking through a prison in a scene of the wartime drama 'Our Mothers, Our Fathers' ('Unsere Muetter, unsere Vaeter'). (photo credit: AP/ZDF/David Slama)

TV drama reopens debate over Germans’ war guilt

Some accuse the show ‘Our Mothers, Our Fathers’ of sidelining ‘the bothersome question of six million dead Jews’

By Frank Jordans and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

February 2, 2013
10:43 pm

The headquarters of Warsaw’s Jewish community, right, known as the “white building,” could be torn down to make way for a taller, modern building. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

Warsaw Ghetto building pits Jews against fellow Poles

In historic irony, gentiles seek to save structure the city’s growing Jewish community wants to knock down

By Vanessa Gera

January 27, 2013
5:59 pm

Silvio Berlusconi visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, February, 2010 (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Former Italian prime minister defends Mussolini-Hitler pact

Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, Silvio Berlusconi says Fascist leader acted in his nation’s best interest; ceremonies held at Polish camps and ghettos

By AP and Times of Israel staff

January 16, 2013
10:21 pm

Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto are led by German soldiers to an assembly point for deportation to death camps, 1943. (photo credit: public domain)

EU places Holocaust memorial on official calendar

Commemoration will honor the Warsaw ghetto uprising and Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg

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