Few Jews had access to weapons in the Warsaw Ghetto, but they resisted nonetheless. In the Warsaw Ghetto, as in the more than 1200 ghettos into which the Germans forced the Jewish population during ...

James Deutsch - Senior Content Coordinator, Smithsonian’s America at 250 Book Project Folklore may arise from anywhere and everywhere, even catastrophe. Known sometimes as the folklore of tragedy or ...

Rachel (Rokhl) Auerbach believed writing about the Warsaw Ghetto’s Jews was a debt she owed to the dead. Eighty years after the Nazis “liquidated” most the city’s Jews in the Holocaust, Auerbach’s ...

A new exhibition that opened Nov. 5 at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee is called 'Violins of Hope: Strings of Jewish Resistance and Resilience,' but seeing these 24 instruments - each of which has some ...

The Vilna and Kovno ghettos were operational for roughly two years, beginning in 1941. Blank — who graduated in Spring 2025 with a bachelor’s degree in law, history and culture — said it is important ...

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 ...

For the veteran producer Paula S. Apsell, Monday’s PBS premiere of the documentary “Resistance: They Fought Back” is a fitting memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A passion project, ...

The requirement to address levels of hostility toward Jews in our society today is evidently urgent. Still within living ...