This amazing and moving study sheds new light on details of the Holocaust that have up until now not been examined. Under the German occupation, "ninety-eight percent of the Jewish population of ...

Alex Hershaft remembers the special comb. He and his family were living in the Warsaw ghetto. It was 1940. He was a little boy, about 6 years old. A disease known as epidemic typhus was spreading ...

On the anniversary of the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland, Life.com has published a series of photos from Hugo Jaeger that depict the city and the smaller ghetto of Kutno in the ...

A conversation with the historian Gunnar S. Paulsson who opened up an important historical debate with his book, "Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940-45", which challenged popular and ...

April 19, 2021, is the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and a good time to take aim at the myth that Jews went “like sheep to the slaughter.” Warsaw stands alongside Auschwitz as a ...

The uprising by Jewish people entrapped in the Warsaw Ghetto 75 years ago has been well documented in art and literature. Here, a look at how the event has served as fodder in films. On April 19, 1943 ...