We are touching history—not as something distant, something remembered, but as something unfolding beneath our feet.
Lauren Moyer, a social studies teacher at Fairfield Warde High School, visited Auschwitz, Krakow and Warsaw with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation.
An-ski and I.L. Peretz to Ludwik Zamenhof, who created the international language of Esperanto, to Mark Edelman, the last ...
Upon landing in Warsaw, we quickly boarded a bus, making our way to the Warsaw Cemetery, the Ghetto, and the site of the Warsaw Uprising. The visit to the cemetery (which was kept open late for us ...
The five chapters of the book trace the tragic experience of the Jews in Europe, opening with the massacre in the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943 and the trauma of the Holocaust to the more recent ...
The museum officially opened in 2013, on the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and unveiled its core exhibition the next year at a ceremony attended by the presidents of Poland and ...
Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum, has died.
WARSAW (Reuters) - Holocaust survivor Marian Turski ... Born as Moshe Turbowicz on June 26, 1926, in Druskieniki, in what is now Lithuania, Turski was sent to the Lodz ghetto at the age of 14. In 1944 ...
The film ends with a denouement of sorts when Lanzmann meets a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and he is able to explain what he has achieved: he was able to accompany the victims as they ...
The Warsaw Ghetto site is a collection of facts from the history of the ghetto and the 'Aryan side' of the city, based on archival and bibliographical data. The facts are stored in the form of an ...
The Warsaw Ghetto, where all Jews from the Polish capital were forced to live, was established and opened in November 1940, when the construction of the Wall that was supposed to prevent the Jews from ...