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Warsaw Ghetto

Vladka Meed’s false identification card, issued in the name of Stanisława Wąchalska, 1943. (Courtesy, Benjamin Meed/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 14, 2026, 8:48 am
Avenging angel risked her life to try to save Warsaw’s Jews — and lived to write about it
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
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Michael Smuss in his home. (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
October 23, 2025, 10:15 pm
Michael Smuss, last surviving Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighter, dies at 99
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
By CLAUDIA CIOBANU, Melanie Lidman and Kirsten Grieshaber
German troops arrest the last remaining members of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in this photo from the Stroop Report. A red line appears under Michael Smuss, with his father to his right. (National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records)
April 24, 2025, 10:44 am
82 years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, its last living fighter bears witness
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
By Zev Stub
Berysz Aurbach, center, at his 104th birthday party in Melbourne, Australia. (Courtesy of Moshe Aurbach)
April 21, 2025, 2:22 am
104-year-old Warsaw Ghetto survivor in Australia gives vivid testimony of uprising
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
By Nomi Kaltmann
The Umschlagplatz Memorial, in Warsaw, Poland, on April 12, 2023. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP / File)
January 7, 2025, 8:27 pm
‘Warsaw 1943 = Gaza 2025’: Holocaust memorial vandalized in Polish capital
Israel envoy denounces graffiti as ‘shameful vandalism,’ calls on Poland to hold perpetrators accountable for crime
By ToI Staff
H. Keith Melton points to a key on an Enigma Machine with four rotors and a some Japanese characters that was used in World War II to encode messages, September 13, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
November 10, 2024, 8:30 am
‘Holocaust Codes’ pits British codebreaker against SS leader in battle for secrecy
Author Christian Jennings delivers jarring account of Allied codebreaker who deciphered Holocaust’s evolution from open-air massacres to purpose-built death camps
By Matt Lebovic
Legendary Warsaw Ghetto historian Rachel Auerbach. (USHMM)
July 30, 2024, 8:26 am
Wartime memoir excavates Jewish spiritual resistance in largest Holocaust ghetto
New translation of Rachel Auerbach’s ‘Warsaw Testament’ sheds light on cultural activism of Jews imprisoned in Nazi Germany’s largest Jewish ghetto
By Matt Lebovic
Germany created the Warsaw ghetto to imprison and starve more than 400,000 Jews during World War II. (Public domain)
May 31, 2023, 4:56 am
Jewish doctors’ secret study of Warsaw ghetto starvation rediscovered 80 years later
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
By Matt Lebovic
Albert Stankowski, left, the director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, Anna Stupnicka-Bando, center, a Polish Christian honored for saving Jews, and Waclaw Kornblum, right, a Polish Holocaust survivor, attend a ceremony for the burial of a 'time capsule' on the grounds of the museum in Warsaw, Poland, on April 18, 2023. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
April 19, 2023, 12:23 pm
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising remembered 80 years on, with Herzog to attend
With no surviving fighters still alive, responsibility for preserving Holocaust memory is passing from witnesses to younger generations
By Vanessa Gera
Askari or Trawniki guards peer into a doorway past the bodies of Jews killed during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (Courtesy of US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 17, 2023, 12:06 pm
‘Burning all around’: Warsaw Ghetto survivors recall uprising 80 years on
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
By Bernard OSSER and Michael Blum
Jonny Daniels stands beside the Israeli and Polish flags atop a residential building overlooking what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland on March 19. (From the Depths)
March 19, 2023, 7:56 pm
Ahead of ghetto uprising anniversary, Polish and Israeli flags again fly over Warsaw
Holocaust commemoration group places the banners atop a roof as an homage to a famous act of defiance during the revolt 80 years ago
By Canaan Lidor
People attend a March of Remembrance during ceremonies on July 22, 2022 marking the 80th anniversary of the start of Nazi Germany's mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the death camp of Treblinka. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
July 23, 2022, 5:11 am
Hundreds march through Warsaw to mark 80 years since Nazis liquidated Jewish ghetto
Poland’s chief rabbi compares operation that sent 260,00 to their deaths to mass displacement of Ukrainians during Russian invasion
By AFP
A child dying in the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto (photo by Heinz Joest, a Wehrmacht sergeant, Wikimedia Commons)
July 20, 2022, 9:42 am
How defiant Jewish doctors in Warsaw Ghetto detailed effects of Nazi starvation
Recently rediscovered book titled ‘Maladie de Famine’ records grim results of an almost complete lack of food imposed by the Germans in 1942
By Merry Fitzpatrick and Irwin Rosenberg
A group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter, in 1943. (AP Photo)
January 27, 2022, 8:19 pm
Flee the trains: Warsaw Ghetto fighter’s early warning to Western European Jews
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ghetto Fighters’ House publishes for 1st time document broadcast on radio in 1943 warning Jewish communities to escape Nazis
By ToI Staff
Warsaw's Jewish community held a funeral for an unidentified Holocaust victim, after human remains were recently discovered in an area that belonged to the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, in Warsaw, Poland, on September 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)
September 14, 2021, 8:26 pm
Polish Jewish leaders bury remains found in former Warsaw Ghetto
Bones believed to belong to Holocaust victim; ‘After nearly 80 years this unknown person got his dignity back,’ says community chair
By Vanessa Gera
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