Irving Milchberg, who has died aged 86, was the wartime leader of the “cigarette sellers of Three Crosses Square,” a gaggle of Jewish youths who sold smokes to German officers in wartime Warsaw while ...

Michael Smuss, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland who resisted the Nazis, has died aged 99 in Israel. He joined the ...

WARSAW — Experiencing the Holocaust in Warsaw is largely an act of imagination. The Warsaw Ghetto, once home at its height to approximately 460,000 Jews from 1940 to 1943, was obliterated by the Nazis ...

On April 19, 1943, a group of Jews living inside the Nazi-created Warsaw Ghetto in Poland began an armed uprising against Hitler’s occupying forces. The monthlong fight represented the largest and ...

The first history of the Holocaust was buried underground. In September 1946, excavators working in the ruins of the Warsaw ...

On the 76th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jews will celebrate Passover in the Warsaw ghetto. Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler, Cheif Rabbi of Chabad-Poland, is hosting a special Passover Seder ...

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A study seeks to learn how hundreds of thousands of Jews, crammed in the ghetto by the Nazis, halted an outbreak of epidemic typhus. Some —... Alex Hershaft remembers the special comb. He and his ...

One of the last surviving members of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance has told CNN the world must never forget the bravery of those who stood up to the Nazis, 80 years after World War II’s largest Jewish ...

Jews being led for deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images On April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover, German forces ...