At the start of World War II, the Jewish ghetto of Lodz, Poland, had a population of 160,000. By the end of the war, it was 877. One of the few survivors was Henryk Ross, a former photojournalist who ...

Movies mostly show us dreams, tall tales and fiction. But they can also record reality, both the light and the dark. That’s a task accomplished with devastating impact in the Polish documentary ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened an exhibit last week remembering the children of the Lodz Ghetto. The story of the fate of the children of the Lodz Ghetto was one of the most tragic ...

User-Created Clip by tgrane October 24, 2017 2013-06-15T12:56:33-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/f85/20130615125853002_hd.jpgHolocaust survivor Morris Glass ...

In Lodz and Warsaw and other cities with large Jewish populations, the Nazis built ghettos, fenced-off wards of dense, execrable housing. At first, the Jews were merely confined to these areas, but ...

Arnold Mostowicz, 87, who treated victims of Nazi brutality in one of Poland’s largest ghettos during World War II and chronicled his experience in several books, died Feb. 3 in Warsaw after a long ...

The story of the Lodz Ghetto has become folkloric. Chronicled in novels such as Leslie Epstein’s “King of the Jews” and Steve Sem-Sandberg’s “The Emperor of Lies,” this was the place that the ...

A special concert will be held at the Grand Opera in the Polish city of Łódź on Thursday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, one of the largest Jewish ghettos ...

Samuel Kassow, a professor of history at Trinity University and author of several books, spoke Thursday evening in the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. Kassow spoke of his ...

Hounded by memories of ghetto life, Arie Kasiarz hadn’t been able to sleep. He rarely talked about his hardships during the war, once fainting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The ...