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.

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

 THANK YOU, Selman Waksman, for isolating streptomycin.

This week in Jewish history: Miracle aids and antibiotics

 ‘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 Warsaw Ghetto’s last synagogue

The construction of Warsaw’s Great Synagogue, one of the grandest synagogues constructed in the 19th century, was completed in September 1878.

 A REPICLA OF the Great Synagogue of Warsaw at the ANU Museum of the Jewish People.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Novogrudok Tunnel Escape

I first became aware of the connection between the uprising and the Novogrudok tunnel escape during a memorial meeting of Novogrudok survivors and their descendants several years ago in Tel Aviv.

 President Isaac Herzog and his wife, Michal, at the Yad Vashem ceremony on Holocaust Remembrance Day eve, April 27.

Grapevine May 13, 2022: Listening to Warsaw Ghetto survivors

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

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56% of Israeli youth don't know who Mordechai Anielewicz is - poll

The Darkenu poll also found that 28% of Israeli youth don't know what the Final Solution or Auschwitz is.

 A monument to Mordechai Anielewicz, leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, is seen as a man prepares the area ahead of a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, in southern Israel May 4, 2016

On This Day: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began on April 19 and ended on May 16, killing an estimated 7,000 Jews.

Jews held at gunpoint by Nazis during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Grapevine February 9, 2022: Remembering a noble Pole and honorary citizen of Israel

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 WLADYSLAW BARTOSZEWSKI speaks at a ceremony commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw in 2015.

Remains from Warsaw Ghetto buried in Jewish cemetery

Members of the Jewish community of Warsaw buried the bones of a person who may have died 80 years ago in the city’s ghetto during the Holocaust.

An Orthodox Jew walks through the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw April 15, 2013. The 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising will be commemorated on April 19, 2013. Picture taken April 15, 2013.

She vandalized a Holocaust memorial. Now she teaches about antisemitism

Ewa Jasiewicz, who spray-painted the slogan in Poland in 2010, has given three sessions titled “Understanding Antisemitism."

Ewa Jasiewicz attends a protest rally against Israel in Istanbul, Turkey, June 3, 2010.

On this day 78 years ago, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out

It was the first large-scale revolt by Jews during World War II.

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

Kiryat Yam Absorption Center renamed to honor Warsaw Ghetto Uprising hero

his is the second time that the absorption center in Kiryat Yam has been named after her in recognition of her contribution to the Zionist enterprise.

Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog and Mayor David Even Tzur naming the Zivia Lubetkin Absorption Center.