became the last survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, dying in Jerusalem, aged 94. On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack ...

But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead of submitting meekly to the jackboots. Among them were the heroes of the ...

This is the story of the ghetto and its uprising. Before the outbreak of World War II, Poland was home to more than three million Jews – they accounted for 10% of the total population and a third of ...

Over 20,000 Jews fled to Shanghai during World War II. While they found shelter from the Nazis, it was hardly a Shangri-La. Last week, JTA reported that the neighborhood in Shanghai that was home ...

The gruesome story of the Jewish ghettos during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe in the dark days of World War II, based on the records written by their inhabitants, who bear witness to the ...

They spoke Yiddish and Polish. During World War II, imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, they never stopped being artists. In poetry, he was a bitter observer of life in Poland in the 1930s, including the ...

In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. This started World War Two. There were 3.5 million Jews living in Poland at the time. In the Warsaw Ghetto, Jews were forced to wear a white armband with ...

It augments the narrative with supplemental pages explaining such terms and concepts as World War II, antisemitism, ghettos, partisans, the Holocaust, collaborators, the righteous among the nations, ...

People gather at the Paneriai memorial in memory of the Jewish people of Vilnius killed by Nazis during World War ... the ghetto was packed with 400,000 Jews in an area less than 2.4% of the ...

Over 1,000 tons of missile fuel chemicals head for Iran ...