On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor ...

“As German federal president, I stand before you today and bow to the courageous fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto,” Steinmeier told a few hundred politicians, Jewish leaders and others at the ...

An-ski and I.L. Peretz to Ludwik Zamenhof, who created the international language of Esperanto, to Mark Edelman, the last ...

Lauren Moyer, a social studies teacher at Fairfield Warde High School, visited Auschwitz, Krakow and Warsaw with the ...

(JTA) — Members of the Jewish community of Warsaw buried the bones of a person who may have died 80 years ago in the city’s ghetto during the Holocaust. The identity of the person whose bones ...

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum, has died.

The museum officially opened in 2013, on the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and unveiled its core exhibition the next year at a ceremony attended by the presidents of Poland and ...

In the 1930s, the area housed the bulk of Warsaw's Jewish population. By late 1940, the Nazis (who occupied Poland at the time) turned the region into a ghetto, and its residents either died from ...