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A Polish scout lights a candle in front of the monument of Treblinka World War II-era Nazi death camp on October 2, 2013 in Treblinka. (JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP)
June 27, 2026, 9:06 am
New Treblinka research uncovers forgotten role of women in 1943 death camp revolt
Apart from two female survivors, all testimony about Treblinka came from male inmates. In a new book, historian Chad S.A. Gibbs restores Jewish women’s overlooked place in camp resistance
By Matt Lebovic
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
Hanna Solf gives testimony at the Nuremberg Trials, April 1947. (Public domain)
September 13, 2025, 9:05 am
In German high society, secret Nazi-hating rebels saved Jews, tried to end Hitler’s regime
Jonathan Freedland’s new book ‘The Traitors Circle’ examines the Solf Circle, a clandestine group including countesses, diplomats and politicians – and their betrayal and dark fate
By Robert Philpot
Gabrielle Reich protested anti-Jewish measures and was arrested as an 'impudent Jew.' (Courtesy)
January 27, 2024, 4:55 pm
Then and now, ‘impudent Jews’ fought perpetrators ‘in a hundred different manners’
As the Jewish state defends itself against Hamas, German historian publishes book on largely forgotten ‘impudent Jews’ who resisted Nazis despite harsh consequences
By Matt Lebovic
Singer Tzvika Pick, who died in August 2022, is remembered in 'Days of Pick,' a documentary being screened during Jewish Film Week, December 9-14, 2023 (Courtesy)
December 1, 2023, 2:16 pm
Jerusalem’s Jewish Film Week going ahead, adjusted for war
The Jerusalem Cinematheque’s annual Hannukah-period film festival marks its 25th year; free admission for evacuees from southern and northern communities
By Jessica Steinberg
Warsaw Ghetto set ablaze by the SS following the prisoner uprising in April 1943 (Z. L. Grzywaczewski / from the family archive of Maciej Grzywaczewski, POLIN Museum)
April 17, 2023, 4:06 am
Yad Vashem marks 80 years since Warsaw Ghetto Uprising for Yom HaShoah remembrance
The legendary Warsaw revolt and other acts of Jewish resistance — both physical and spiritual — are focus of this year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration at Yad Vashem
By Matt Lebovic
Anton Krymskiy as Mitke in 'Nakam' (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg / Leonard Caspari)
December 20, 2022, 4:25 am
Oscar-qualifying short film strikes chord with story of heroic young WWII partisan
Made as a film school thesis project, ‘NAKAM’ is inspired by Motele Schlein, who was killed in a Nazi ambush, but whose violin survived as symbol of resistance and is still played
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Leonid Berenshtein speaks to director Roman Shumunov in his eponymous film. (Courtesy)
September 30, 2022, 9:10 am
Film lauds WWII partisan chief who found Hitler’s V2s, died in Israel in obscurity
Director Roman Shumunov tells the story of Leonid Berenshtein, who climbed the ranks in the underground, eventually discovering the factory producing Hitler’s dreaded V2 rockets
By Rich Tenorio
A detail of the mural titled 'Apotheosis of Fascism,' by Luigi Montanarini, believed to have been painted between the late 1930s and early 1940s, in the Salone d'Onore of the CONI headquarters, in Rome, May 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
June 19, 2022, 11:44 pm
Fascist Italy, Church under ‘Hitler’s Pope’ took steps to save Jews, claims author
In his new book, ‘Syndrome K,’ British author Christian Jennings paints a complex picture of fear, resistance, and covert humanitarianism in a country torn asunder by the Nazis
By Robert Philpot
Jewish youth collect books in the Kaunas Ghetto, 1942 (Yad Vashem)
April 5, 2022, 5:01 am
How 80 years ago, Jewish teens rescued the Kaunas Ghetto’s holy books
In the Nazis’ Feb. 1942 ‘Books Aktion,’ Jews were ordered to hand over all books. Now, the history of resistance efforts that saved countless works is in danger of being forgotten
By Matt Lebovic
Detail from Gestapo mug shots of Mildred Harnack following her arrest, 1942. (Bundesarchiv, R 58/03191-228)
September 28, 2021, 11:43 am
A courageous American woman led the largest resistance group in Nazi Germany
In the bestseller ‘All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days,’ author Rebecca Donner recounts the true story of her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, who gave her life to fight fascism
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A screenshot of the joint Holocaust commemoration ceremony on Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, sponsored by B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael on April 8 2021. (Screenshot: YouTube)
April 8, 2021, 4:22 pm
Singer Shlomo Artzi’s father honored for rescuing thousands of Jews in Holocaust
Yitzhak Artzi recognized for his role as head of the Jewish resistance in Romania, where he smuggled thousands of children out of Transnistria
By ToI Staff
From left: Renia Kukiełka in Budapest, 1944. (Courtesy of Merav Waldman); Tosia Altman (Courtesy of Moreshet, Hashomer Hatzair Archives); Courier Hela Schüpper (left) and Akiva leader Shoshana Langer disguised as Christians on the Aryan side of Warsaw, June 26, 1943. (Courtesy of Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, Photo Archive)
April 7, 2021, 3:08 am
Smuggler, fighter, courier, spy: How Jewish women defied the Nazis in Poland
In ‘The Light of Days,’ author Judy Batalion tells the extraordinary tale of myriad brave females who took leading roles in clandestine, armed struggle in ghettos and forests
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa (courtesy)
March 28, 2021, 9:33 am
Using rare archival films, Ukrainian director forces viewers to face Babyn Yar
Filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa grew up in ignorance close to site of Holocaust massacre. Now he’s creating 24 short films about the history — and its erasure — at the notorious ravine
By Matt Lebovic
Seth Rogen plays a Russian-Jewish immigrant and his own great-grandson in 'An American Pickle,' which will open the 2020 Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival on November 11, 2020 (Courtesy HBO)
November 4, 2020, 2:20 pm
Jerusalem Jewish film fest to open with Rogen’s ‘American Pickle’
Festival’s 22nd year includes movies about identity, faith, religion and relationships
By Jessica Steinberg
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