On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor their defensive pact with Poland and declare war on Germany in response. As ...

The Vilna Ghetto Partisans Brigade with famed partisan Abba Kovner (Center, back row) Resistance - They Fought Back! That’s the title of a new documentary on the Jewish resistance to Nazi-led pogroms ...

As soon as the new bloodbath in the Middle East began, the label of anti-Semite that Israel’s supporters so readily attributed to all those who dared to criticise its policies was replaced by… ...

Yisrael Gutman, a leading Holocaust scholar, noted that before 1942, the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe did not genuinely view armed resistance as an option. Why? The Jews had very ...

Examines the final year of the Warsaw ghetto, the uprising, and the resistance to the Holocaust. This riveting and dramatic account sheds light on the lives, choices, and experiences of the tens of ...

Poland’s ministry of foreign affairs denounced on Friday the defacement in Warsaw the previous day of a World War II monument commemorating Holocaust victims. “The MFA strongly condemns the act of ...

Eighty-one years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, few survivors are still alive to recount the horrors endured there. Pinchas Gutter was just seven years old when Nazi officers came to his childhood ...