A new museum of Jewish history opens in Poland this week to refocus attention on a vibrant community that has lived in the country for centuries but whose history, for many, has been eclipsed by the ...
(JTA) — WARSAW, Poland — In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were killed and their neighborhood razed during World War II, a Jewish community has never recovered — but a museum has ...
On a July day in 1941 in Jedwabne – a small town in northeastern Poland – Polish Christians massacred 1,600 of their Jewish neighbors, herding many of them in a barn doused in kerosene and burning the ...
Ohio State University Hillel students toured Holocaust sites in Poland, confronting grief while gaining pride in Jewish identity through learning prewar life, loss and legacy.
More than six decades after the Nazis emptied the Warsaw Ghetto — killing its remaining Jewish inhabitants or sending them to death camps — a museum about the history of Polish Jewry in the millennia ...
“Wartime Poland was the closest thing to Hell on this earth,” Father Jan Januszewski, a Dachau survivor, told me shortly before he passed away in Key Largo, Florida, in 1987. When the Germans defeated ...
(AP) The box-like glass building rises from soil marked by tragedy in the heart of Warsaw’s former Jewish district. At certain angles, its luminous facade reflects the outlines of a dark memorial to ...
Spoons, sewing machines, tiles and letters — everyday items once belonging to Polish Jews — are being digitally collected ...
A new museum of Jewish history opens in Poland this week to refocus attention on a vibrant community that has lived in the country for centuries but whose history, for many, has been eclipsed by the ...
Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. Laurel Kratochvila was a 23 year-old ...
(JTA) In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were killed and their neighborhood razed during World War II, a Jewish community has never recovered — but a museum has for a decade drawn ...