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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 last Simhat Torah in the Warsaw Ghetto

Any illusions that some may have once had about the intentions of the Germans, or even their presumed humanity, had been upended by their tormentors’ brutishness and savagery.

A man holds Israel’s flag during the March of Remembrance commemorating the 71st anniversary of the beginning of the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw last year.

Poland to be Rivlin’s first trip abroad as President

Polish president Komorowski is going to provide a presidential plane to bring Rivlin and his delegation from Israel to Poland.

Rivlin sworn in as president, July 23

The Gaza war and the new Holocaust revisionism

If Gaza is like the Warsaw Ghetto, then the Warsaw Ghetto was like Gaza – and the true meaning of genocide in general, and the Holocaust in particular, is lost.

Demonstrators hold a placard and wave Israeli flags during a rally in support of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip

Germany grants enlarged pensions to Jewish ghetto laborers

Amendment to German law enables around 40,000 Jews who labored in Nazi ghettos to receive back payments dating to 1997.

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No Holds Barred: Pope Francis and the need to confront evil

When the pope prays in front of graffiti that compares Bethlehem to the Warsaw Ghetto, he risks being trivializing the Holocaust.

Pope kisses hand of Holocaust survivor at Yad Vashem

The boy who ran for three years to escape the Holocaust

"Run Boy Run" tells the true story of Yoram Israel Fridman, who was smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto at age eight.

Polish Actor Kamil or Andrzej Tkacs is one of the identical twins who play the true-life role of Holocaust survivor Israel Fridman in the new movie by German director Pepe Danquart.

71st anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto uprising commemorated

Crowds in Polish capital mark beginning of Jewish resistance against Nazis during World War II.

Ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,  April 19, 2013.

Reflections from the Warsaw Ghetto

Despitemy father's pain he remained a genuinely pious man committed to his God and his people.

Ghetto uprising monument in Warsaw 370

Grapevine: A bittersweet remembrance

Every year of the Holocaust was an important year, with extraordinary displays of humanity and courage.

Buchenwald survivor celebrate liberation

Stones with a story to tell

What would happen if the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came back to life today...?

Stones