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

Ghetto Fighters’ Museum exhibits seek to bring past to younger generation

‘This exhibition is the story of life,’ curator says.

JANUARY 22, 2018ByTAMARA ZIEVE

Members of a pioneer youth movement, shown in a Ghetto Fighter's House Musem exhibition.

Area under Warsaw Ghetto poised to be named protected archeological site

The remains of the ghetto are often excavated during repairs. If it is listed as a protected site, these remains will be guaranteed safe.

JANUARY 21, 2018ByJTA

A scene from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943

Voices of the Warsaw Ghetto unearthed

With International Holocaust Remembrance Day coming up on January 27, new film ‘Who Will Write Our History?’ tells the story of the ‘Oyneg Shabes’ heroes

JANUARY 15, 2018ByGEORGE MEDOVOY

The last Simhat Torah in the Warsaw Ghetto

They were a small group – most Jews had lost their faith in a God who they believed abandoned them; yet these religious Jews were an important part of ghetto life, their story deserves to be told.

OCTOBER 9, 2017ByELI KAVON