The haunting history of the world’s first Jewish ghetto

The world’s first Jewish “ghetto”, established by the Venetian Senate on March 29 1516, was seen as a temporary solution to a ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

YIVO exhibit illuminates a diary kept by a 13-year-old boy in the Vilna ghetto

The online exhibit tells the story of Yitskhok Rudashevski, who documented his life in the ghetto from 1941 to 1943. Growing up in Vilna in the 1930s, Yitskhok Rudashevski was a typical 13-year-old ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Teenager’s Holocaust Diary Is Changing the Way We Interact With Online Exhibitions

When technology and storytelling converge, an online exhibition can create deeply immersive, accessible and educational experiences Karolina Ziulkoski Photo of Yitskhok Rudashevski in the 1930s.
The Forward

In the Warsaw ghetto, where disease, cold weather and violence all exerted heavy tolls

As the Holocaust recedes in time, the complexities and varieties of Jewish resistance are moving into sharper focus. Rebellion, we now realize, wasn’t limited to taking up arms, committing sabotage, ...
Washington Examiner

Warsaw ghetto survivor in Israel recalls uprising

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two days before her comrades embarked on an uprising that came to symbolize Jewish resistance against the Nazis in World War II, 14-year-old Aliza Mendel got her orders: Escape from ...
The Nation Newspaper

Bimbo Ademoye reveals dad’s role in escaping ghetto life

Award-winning actress, Bimbo Ademoye has reflected on how she was able to avoid the ghetto life despite growing up in a lowbrow area of Lagos. “I was that girl her dad never allowed to go out, we just ...