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.

JANUARY 23, 2026|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.

NOVEMBER 13, 2025|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.

JULY 19, 2025|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.

JUNE 3, 2025|ByALEK D. EPSTEIN

Jewish doctors in Warsaw Ghetto stopped epidemic in its tracks

Jewish doctors in the ghetto, it seems, enforced social distancing and put those infected in quarantine: much like today.

JULY 25, 2020ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI

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

March of the Living program to air, giving hope in face of antisemitism

The program will feature notable celebrities, and will also commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the end of World War II.

JUNE 14, 2020ByCELIA JEAN

Actress Mayim Bialik arrives at the 21st Annual Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California January 17, 2016.

JMU of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to be added to Israeli curriculum

Many are aware of the Jewish resistance led by Mordechai Anielewicz, in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but few are aware of an additional group of fighters: the Jewish Military Union

APRIL 30, 2020ByCELIA JEAN

Does Halacha approve of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?

Are military actions likely to result in death 'brave', or should the preservation of life take priority?

NOVEMBER 15, 2019ByRABBI SHLOMO BRODY

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

Janusz Korczak remembered 77 years after his murder in the Holocaust

Yad Vashem will hold a special symposium and commemorative ceremony on Tuesday

AUGUST 5, 2019ByILANIT CHERNICK

The 'Janusz Korczak and the Children' sculpture by Boris Saktsier

Polish dance troupe recalls Warsaw Ghetto

The harshness and heroism that existed during the time of the Warsaw Ghetto will be on full display in Polish dance group KONTRA’s new theatrical dance performance “Righteous Among the Nations."

JUNE 20, 2019ByCOURTESY