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


Remembering those who had no one to remember them

Nechama Rivlin read the names of the relatives of Michal Shorer, a family friend, whose nearest and dearest lost their lives in the Treblinka death camp in 1942.

President Reuven Rivlin speaks to Holocaust survivor Miriam Eshel.

Warsaw Ghetto heroine dies

Hela Schuepper Rufeisen, one of the last survivors of Warsaw Uprising, passed away on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

A STREET in Warsaw destroyed during the failed 1944 uprising against Nazi occupiers

Garde la coutume, et la coutume te gardera

Une exposition en ligne montre comment les juifs se sont battus pour préserver les rites de Pessah même dans les périodes les plus tourmentée

Seder dans le ghetto de Varsovie

Books — 'Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, The History of an Idea'

A history of the ghetto, from imprisoning European Jews to segregating African Americans.

Jews forced out of bunkers by SS police during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943

Julian Kulski’s war

75 years ago, a 12-year-old boy joined the resistance against the Nazis in Poland. His memoir ‘The Color of Courage’ reminds us what it means to stand against evil.

A STREET in Warsaw destroyed during the failed 1944 uprising against Nazi occupiers

Warsaw Ghetto plaque defaced with swastika

The plaque, erected in 2008, was dedicated to the "memory of those who suffered, fought and died."

Spray-painted swastika (illustrative)

A Flame Re-Ignited: My Trip to Poland, Part IV

The Jerusalem Post

A heartbreak novel

An account of the Warsaw Ghetto will have you on the verge of tears; two other books are much less impressive.

Warsaw’s Monument to the Ghetto Heroes

Books: The Book of Aron

Through the first-person narrative of a child, "The Book of Aron" provides a powerful and poignant reminder of the stark moral choices the Jews of Warsaw were forced to make.

A part of the scene on the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw.

Lag Ba'Omer in the Warsaw Ghetto

The Jerusalem Post