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Avenging angel risked her life to try to save Warsaw’s Jews — and lived to write about it

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:48:06 +0000

Updated English translation of Vladka Meed's 1948 Yiddish memoir, 'On Both Sides of the Wall,' breathes new life into her experiences with the Jewish resistance against the Nazis

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Michael Smuss, last surviving Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighter, dies at 99

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:15:49 +0000

While working to repair Nazi helmets, Smuss stole material for Jewish resistance needed to make Molotov cocktails; he survived the war and moved to US, then to Israel

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82 years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, its last living fighter bears witness

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 07:44:04 +0000

Michael Smuss helped smuggle supplies needed during the Jewish resistance against the Nazis; he shares how a series of 'lucky' accidents helped him withstand further horrors

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104-year-old Warsaw Ghetto survivor in Australia gives vivid testimony of uprising

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 23:22:57 +0000

Some 35,000 survivors made their way down under post-WWII. Berysz Aurbach is a rare firsthand witness of the Jews' revolt against their Nazi oppressors on Passover of 1943

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‘Warsaw 1943 = Gaza 2025’: Holocaust memorial vandalized in Polish capital

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:27:50 +0000

Israel envoy denounces graffiti as 'shameful vandalism,' calls on Poland to hold perpetrators accountable for crime

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‘Holocaust Codes’ pits British codebreaker against SS leader in battle for secrecy

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 06:30:58 +0000

Author Christian Jennings delivers jarring account of Allied codebreaker who deciphered Holocaust's evolution from open-air massacres to purpose-built death camps

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Wartime memoir excavates Jewish spiritual resistance in largest Holocaust ghetto

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 05:26:28 +0000

New translation of Rachel Auerbach's ‘Warsaw Testament’ sheds light on cultural activism of Jews imprisoned in Nazi Germany's largest Jewish ghetto

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Jewish doctors’ secret study of Warsaw ghetto starvation rediscovered 80 years later

Wed, 31 May 2023 01:56:50 +0000

Tufts professor sheds light on smuggled medical research conducted by imprisoned Jewish physicians on what they label 'hunger disease'; 100 patients enrolled in the study

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising remembered 80 years on, with Herzog to attend

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:23:19 +0000

With no surviving fighters still alive, responsibility for preserving Holocaust memory is passing from witnesses to younger generations

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‘Burning all around’: Warsaw Ghetto survivors recall uprising 80 years on

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:06:07 +0000

Nazis confined up to 450,000 Jews in area of just over 3 square kilometers; in April 1943 hundreds of Jewish fighters rose up, preferring to die fighting than in gas chambers

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Ahead of ghetto uprising anniversary, Polish and Israeli flags again fly over Warsaw

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:56:47 +0000

Holocaust commemoration group places the banners atop a roof as an homage to a famous act of defiance during the revolt 80 years ago

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Hundreds march through Warsaw to mark 80 years since Nazis liquidated Jewish ghetto

Sat, 23 Jul 2022 02:11:54 +0000

Poland's chief rabbi compares operation that sent 260,00 to their deaths to mass displacement of Ukrainians during Russian invasion

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How defiant Jewish doctors in Warsaw Ghetto detailed effects of Nazi starvation

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:42:35 +0000

Recently rediscovered book titled 'Maladie de Famine' records grim results of an almost complete lack of food imposed by the Germans in 1942

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Flee the trains: Warsaw Ghetto fighter’s early warning to Western European Jews

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 18:19:02 +0000

Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ghetto Fighters' House publishes for 1st time document broadcast on radio in 1943 warning Jewish communities to escape Nazis

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Polish Jewish leaders bury remains found in former Warsaw Ghetto

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:26:11 +0000

Bones believed to belong to Holocaust victim; 'After nearly 80 years this unknown person got his dignity back,' says community chair

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