Warsaw ghetto

Ghetto Fighters’ House: World's first Holocaust museum keeping memory, message alive

The Ghetto Fighters’ House brings rare archival artifacts and stories to Givatayim for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, linking past resilience to today’s changing world.

|ByBARRY DAVIS
Janusz Korczak motivated the children in his care by giving them jolly cards.
Visitors tour an exhibition, ahead of Israel's national Holocaust memorial day at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem April 23, 2025.

Prominent Holocaust survivors die, including ‘librarian of Auschwitz,' last Warsaw Ghetto fighter

Six months after the Claims Conference estimated that 220,800 Holocaust survivors remained alive, that number has dropped below 200,000, according to the group’s executive vice president.

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
THANK YOU, Selman Waksman, for isolating streptomycin.

This week in Jewish history: Miracle aids and antibiotics

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER
‘In Memory of the Victims of the Rumbula Forest Massacre’ by Haim Aronstam, 1973.

Survive, in Order to Create: Exhibiton launched in Ma'ale Adumim art museum

“The Destroyed World” hall presents the destroyed Jewish life. Apart from the killing of millions of people, the Holocaust involved the destruction of of a whole world of Jewish spirit and identity.

|ByALEK D. EPSTEIN

WJC commemorates 80th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The WJC has been a significant contributor to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial ceremonies since they were first held in the devastated city of Warsaw

APRIL 20, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
World Jewish Congress chairman Ronald S. Lauder speaks at the Congress honoring Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz with the Theodor Herzl Award at a gala dinner at New York’s Waldorf Astoria on November 9, 2015.

Germany asks Israel, Poland for forgiveness for Warsaw Ghetto liquidation

Herzog: Uprising was emblem of heroism • Duda: We bow our heads to those who fought hatred

APRIL 19, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
President Isaac Herzog together with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Polish President Andrzej Duda, in a joint handshake at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes at the end of the main ceremony

President Herzog lands in Poland to mark 80 years since the Warsaw ghetto uprising

This year the event has been significantly expanded, and the presidents of Israel, Poland and Germany will all deliver speeches.

APRIL 18, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Israel's President Isaac Herzog meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda ahead of ceremony marking 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 19, 2023.

Studying Jabotinsky's ideas about Jewish pride - a way to honor Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - opinion

Holocaust Remembrance Day was created by the Israeli government to be near the anniversary of the uprising on the Jewish calendar was the correct choice.

APRIL 17, 2023ByMOSHE PHILLIPS
A WOMAN LAYS daffodils during the commemoration of the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in front of the Warsaw Ghetto monument in 2021.

80th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The largest Jewish revolt - opinion

We remember the past and draw on historical experience to build a better future. But we do not forget those who died or were murdered.

APRIL 17, 2023ByPIOTR GLINSKI
Captured Jews pulled out of Warsaw Ghetto bunkers are led by German Waffen SS soldiers to 'Umschlagplatz,' the assembly point for deportation.

Grapevine April 16, 2023: Remembering Together

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

APRIL 16, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRIME MINISTER David Ben-Gurion and his wife Paula welcome guests at a reception for Independence Day in 1949.

Herzog heads to Poland for 80th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising

Israeli President Isaac Herzog will later participate in a ceremony at the Nozyk Synagogue in Warsaw and will meet with the Jewish community of Warsaw.

APRIL 4, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
President Isaac Herzog in his office at Beit Hanassi.

Museum unveils never-before-seen images of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews revealed the details behind the discovery of these pictures, which were original negatives taken in 1943.

JANUARY 19, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
being led to Umschlagplatz; photo taken from a window of St Zofia Hospital in Warsaw.

Churchill and Roosevelt's roles in WWII Jewish rescue - opinion

The “attitudes of much of the Foreign Office in Britain and of the US State Department,” says Groth, “were fundamentally hostile to Jewish rescue.”

NOVEMBER 20, 2022ByGEORGE MEDOVOY
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT and Winston Churchill – did they fail European Jewry?

Grapevine August 28, 2022: Brazil's bi-centenary

Movers and shakers of Israeli society.

AUGUST 28, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
BRAZIL’S PRESIDENT Jair Bolsonaro takes part in a welcome ceremony for the urn with the heart of Portuguese monarch Dom Pedro I, who declared Brazil’s independence from Portugal 200 years ago, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, earlier this week.