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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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
Law enforcement officers write a report as a worker cleans the red-black paint stain on a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw on November 15, 2024 (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
November 16, 2024, 2:09 pm
Poland condemns vandalism after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial sprayed with red paint
Polish foreign ministry says ‘such acts are an attack on history and the values that unite us as a society’; Israeli envoy urges ‘determined action’ to stop antisemitism
By AFP
A pro-Palestinian protester takes the stage briefly at the official ceremony to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland, April 19, 2024. (Gabe Miner via JTA)
April 20, 2024, 5:36 am
Demonstrator unfurls Palestinian flag on stage at Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration
Sole protester places flowers then joins dignitaries at ceremony, unfurls flag and stands with his head down; police escort him away
By PHILISSA CRAMER
President Isaac Herzog speaks at a commemoration on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw, Poland on April 19, 2023. (Courtesy of the office of the President of the State of Israel)
April 19, 2023, 7:31 pm
Herzog to Polish president: Story of Holocaust must recall evil of Nazis, accomplices
Israeli president appears to reference dispute over WWII narrative in speech as he joins German, Polish counterparts in Warsaw for 80th Ghetto Uprising memorial
By ToI Staff and Canaan Lidor
Front from right, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, Israel's President Isaac Herzog, Michal Herzog, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Elke Buedenbender attend a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration event in Warsaw, Poland, April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
April 19, 2023, 3:15 pm
Israeli, Polish, German leaders overcome tension to jointly remember Warsaw rebels
On the 80th anniversary of the ghetto uprising, the heads of state of the three countries for the first time attend a commemoration service for the fallen
By Canaan Lidor
People participate in the annual 'March of the Living', a trek between two former Nazi-run death camps, in Oswiecim, Poland, on April 18, 2023 to mourn victims of the Holocaust and celebrate the existence of the Jewish state. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
April 19, 2023, 1:22 pm
Daily Briefing Apr. 19: Israeli flags wave at Auschwitz; will there be a Saudi deal?
Diaspora affairs reporter Canaan Lidor discusses March of the Living as US bureau chief Jacob Magid looks at Israel-Saudi relations and the US visa waiver program
By ToI Staff
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
Holocaust survivor Halina Birenbaum, 93, prepares to leave for the March of the Living commemorative event in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, April 17, 2023. (Canaan Lidor)
April 18, 2023, 12:05 pm
Halina Birenbaum survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She saw heroism elsewhere
At 93, one of just a handful of living witnesses of the armed rebellion seeks to correct Jews’ understanding of bravery during the genocide
By Canaan Lidor
A Holocaust survivor lights one of six torches representing the six million victims of the Nazi genocide, during the opening ceremony, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, of Israel's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 17, 2023. (Eric Marmor/Flash90)
April 17, 2023, 4:10 pm
These 6 survivors are lighting memorial torches at Yad Vashem’s Yom HaShoah ceremony
When Israel marks the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the president and PM will address the nation and these Holocaust survivors will honor the 6 million Jews killed by Nazis
By Yaakov Schwartz
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
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
Holocaust survivor Tova Gutstein, 90, who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto as a child, poses for a photo at her apartment in the central city of Rishon Lezion, April 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
April 14, 2023, 1:43 pm
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising survivor to light torch at Yad Vashem on 80th anniversary
Tova Gutstein was 10 years old at time of rebellion against Nazis, fled to forest after defeat and hid with partisans, says she ‘can’t forget’ horrors of war
By Ilan Ben Zion and AMI BEN TOV
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