In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves. This is Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery and one of the largest ...
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The capital of Poland is overlooked by skyscrapers and characterized by fancy architecture. But if you don't know the tragic history this city is built on, you can't understand Warsaw. Jan Woitas/dpa ...
Eighty-one years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, few survivors are still alive to recount the horrors endured there. Pinchas Gutter was just seven years old when Nazi officers came to his childhood ...
The director of Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery has been fired following a dispute over restoration projects on the site, which he said too often excluded local Jews. Witold Wrzosinski, the Jewish director, ...
Explore the complexities of Poland today and its relation to Jewish history and memory in a post-Holocaust context.
Scenes of starving Jewish children smuggling food, a dead body on the sidewalk, were captured in never-before-seen footage of Warsaw's wartime ghetto by an amateur fillmmaker in 1941. For decades, the ...
(AP) The box-like glass building rises from soil marked by tragedy in the heart of Warsaw’s former Jewish district. At certain angles, its luminous facade reflects the outlines of a dark memorial to ...
Travel case in hand, dressed in fashionable clothing and wearing a practiced, coquettish smile, Hela Schüpper Rufeisen sat ...
The internationally acclaimed Singer's Warsaw Festival of Jewish Culture brings three of Poland's leading music and theater artists to New York on Sunday and Monday November 24 & 25, in a unique ...
Marshal Josef Pilsudski’s widow, one of the Polish refugees here, declared today that the first building hit in the Nazi aerial bombardment of Warsaw was a Jewish hospital.
(JTA) — WARSAW (JTA) — In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves. Some gravestones stand tall and ...