Warsaw ghetto

'We will remember': IDF chief of staff issues statement ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day

In the letter, Zamir vowed to “remember the communities that were erased from the face of the earth; the voices of the boys and girls, the elderly and the young, who were led to the crematoria."

The Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on April 12, 2026, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Janusz Korczak motivated the children in his care by giving them jolly cards.

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

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


The politics of memory

A debate over who did what in the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt is part of broader dilemmas of commemorating the Holocaust.

Israeli youth look at a model of the Warsaw Ghetto displayed at the ‘From Holocaust to Revival’ exhibition at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai

Sarenka, unsung hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Anielewicz is not, however, the only central figure in the monument. Above him, a bare-breasted woman is holding a baby high up in her arms toward the heavens – perhaps as an act of rebellion.

RACHEL LEAH ZYLBERBERG (SARENKA).

Heroes in our midst

A round-up of news from around Israel.

In this file photo taken on April 18, 2013 89 year old Simcha "Kazik" Rotem (C) attends a commemoration ceremony in Warsaw

The life and legacy of Holocaust hero Simcha ‘Kazik’ Rotem

When Deborah asks Rotem if he thinks they’ll make it, he responds: “The only thing I can think of is how to blow the bastards up.”

In this file photo taken on April 18, 2013 89 year old Simcha "Kazik" Rotem (C) attends a commemoration ceremony in Warsaw

Rivlin mourns loss of final fighter from Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Simcha (Kazik) Rotem, may his memory be a blessing.

The last fighter from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Simcha (Kazik) Rotem.

Youth behind barbed-wire fences

In his diaries, the young Gerber deals with a variety of topics: from the culture of rumor-mongering and fears of being abducted into forced labor to songs written in the ghetto.

A barbed wire fence along Panrow Street separating the two parts of the Kovnia ghetto in Lithuaia

The way it was….

Expressed in Yiddish

THIS ICONIC photo shows Jews being captured by the Nazis during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943

The Warsaw Ghetto revolt and the Iwanski myth

WREATHS ARE seen next to a sculpture during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Warsaw Ghetto Square at Yad Vashem

An invitation to Polin.

Current conflict should not overshadow centuries of Jewish-Polish history and cooperation.

‘POLAND WAS literally the only country in German Nazi occupied Europe that NEVER demonstrated ANY complicity with the fascist Nazi occupiers

Preserving Holocaust memories

An unforgettable visit to Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot.

Haya Helenka Levi’s photo album from her time at Janusz Korczak’s orphanage (1933-39)