Posts Tagged: Warsaw Ghetto
Last Fighter of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Dies at Age 99 in Israel
Michael Smuss, who was the last surviving fighter from World War II's Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, died in Israel at the age of 99, the Embassy...
Israel Sells Missile System to Germany; The Jews Will Not Be Helpless Again
Eighty years ago, the remaining Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up in revolt against the genocidal Nazi forces that were in the process of...
What I Saw as a Jewish Teen Visiting Poland
During Thanksgiving break, I had the privilege of taking a trip to Poland with my father. We visited Krakow, Warsaw, Lublin, and Łódź. As someone...
‘Heroic’ Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Remembered With Personal Stories, Symbolic Flowers on Anniversary of Outbreak
The largest act of Jewish military resistance during World War II was remembered by world Jewish groups as well as diplomats from Israel and Poland...
Hidden Bunker Discovered in Warsaw Ghetto
JNS.org - A bunker containing 100-year-old tefillin (phylacteries) hidden from the Nazis in World War II has been discovered in the ruins of the Warsaw...
Social Distancing in the Warsaw Ghetto
JNS.org - “I was told that these were human beings. They didn’t look like human beings.” With these haunting words, the Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski...
On 31st Anniversary, Hamas Compares Palestinian Terrorism to Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Pledges to Resist Israel ‘With All Means Possible’
The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas compared itself on Sunday to Jews who revolted against the Nazis during the Holocaust, amid a public relations effort on the 31st...
The Warsaw Ghetto: The Epitome of Rightful Resistance
JNS.org - It’s hard to say for sure whether the following fable was really told in the Warsaw Ghetto, but it’s grimly funny enough to warrant...
New York Times Editorial Tests Trump on Holocaust
A New York Times editorial urged President Donald Trump to emphasize Jewish victimhood in his statement this year for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Times editorial...
Legendary Movie Mogul Harvey Weinstein to Direct Film on Warsaw Ghetto Revolt
Jewish Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has announced that he will produce and direct a film about the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Weinstein made his announcement...
Have We Learned the Lessons — and Causes — of the Holocaust?
This coming Friday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is often assumed that the Holocaust was caused by a long-lasting antisemitic infrastructure in Germany and on the...
Tisha B’Av in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942
Before the Germans captured the city of Warsaw in the 1939 Blitzkrieg, there were 360,000 Jews in the Polish capital. Its Jews were forced into...
Books of Esther Found in Hidden Warsaw Ghetto Synagogue Brought to Israel
JNS.org - Three Books of Esther scrolls read on Purim during the Holocaust were recently found in a hidden synagogue at the Warsaw Ghetto after a...
Holocaust Novel Wins Jewish Literary Award
JNS.org - The Book of Aron: A Novel, by Jim Shepard, received the 2016 Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature at the midwinter meeting...
