April 19, 1943: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began
On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had crushed the uprising and left...
May 19, 1588: The Spanish Armada
The Jews of Spain had their revenge on the Inquisition and the Spanish monarch on this date in 1588 when the Spanish Armada arrived in Lisbon in preparation for an attack on England, and...
WWII archive shows how Polish diplomats helped Jews
Polish officials last year announced the recovery of the archive, which they said contained historic documents showing how Polish diplomats helped rescue Jews from the Holocaust during World War II.
The diplomats, led by the Polish...
Holocaust survivors to pass torch of remembrance to next generation
Holocaust survivors from five continents will share their experiences during and after World War II and the Shoah as part of a 10-hour online conversation hosted by the Combat Antisemitism Movement, Zikaron BaSalon affiliated with the...
Warsaw’s Jewish community buries remains found of unidentified Holocaust victim
Warsaw’s Jewish community buried the remains of an unidentified Holocaust victim on Tuesday, found in a building that was once part of the Warsaw Ghetto.
“We are here as the family for a person we...
Hungary’s Jewish renaissance
Another Budapest synagogue rose from the ashes last week thanks to Chabad of Hungary. It was the tenth to do so, marking a Hungarian Jewish renaissance that began some 10 years ago, breathing new...
Landmark Jerusalem building to house new museum celebrating Jewish heritage
For a dozen years, Jerusalem’s landmark Schneller Compound on Malchei Yisrael Street has lain dormant and abandoned.
Now, the 19th-century cluster of edifices is undergoing a massive renovation to become Beit HaKehillot (House of the Communities),...
Alabama English teacher wins award for excellence in Holocaust education
Logan Greene, who teaches eighth-grade English in Hoover, Ala.—smack-dab in the center of the state (population 92,606, according to the 2020 U.S. Census)—has been honored for what the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous calls...
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ohio museum is free
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held annually on Jan. 27, and in response to “the unprecedented rise in Holocaust denial and antisemitism,” the Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati...
Hebrew inscriptions revealed at Great Synagogue dig sites in Vilnius, Lithuania
Hebrew inscriptions were discovered for the first time since the beginning of the excavation project to expose the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania, which was burned during the Holocaust and demolished by the Soviets.
According...