In her November 19 review of the play Amid Falling Walls, Rukhl Schaechter describes a scene she found particularly moving. In it, an exiled Polish Jewish politician takes his own life to protest the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

WARSAW (Reuters Life!) - With psalms, poems and popular Yiddish songs, Poles and Jews celebrated on Tuesday the start of construction of a new museum that will chronicle Poland's rich and colorful ...

Yisrael Gutman, a leading Holocaust scholar, noted that before 1942, the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe did not genuinely view armed resistance as an option. Why? The Jews had very ...

The director of Warsaw’s Jewish cemetery has been fired following a dispute over restoration projects on the site, which he ...