Tag: Warsaw Ghetto
Hidden bunker discovered in Warsaw Ghetto
A bunker containing 100-year-old tefillin (phylacteries) hidden from the Nazis in World War II has been discovered in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto.
In recent years, Polish authorities have begun to demolish buildings inside...
January 22, 1943: The Warsaw Ghetto Underground
The Jewish Fighting Organization of Warsaw (ZOB) issued the following proclamation about this date in 1943, following its first act of armed resistance (January 18th):
“On January 22 1943, six months will have elapsed since...
November 11, 1920: Chaike Belchatowska Spiegel, Ghetto Fighter
Chaike Belchatowska, a fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising who survived to tell about it, was born in Warsaw on this date in 1920. The child of a radical mother, and a member of...
Social distancing in the Warsaw Ghetto
“I was told that these were human beings. They didn’t look like human beings.”
With these haunting words, the Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski recalled his agonized reaction as he walked around the Warsaw Ghetto...
‘We are here’: Virtual concert to honor 77th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Sing for Hope and Lang Lang International Music Foundation will present the program “We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience,...
In Varshever Ghetto is haynt joidesh nisn, by Binem Heller
In Varshever Ghetto is haynt joidesh nisn, escrito por Binem Heller, declamado por Hadassa Kestin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoGmHz5U70E
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Binem Heller
Binem Heller was a...
A Passover seder in the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto
For the first time since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, some 100 Diaspora Jewish families will celebrate the Jewish festival of redemption in the heart of what was once the ghetto.
Seventy-six years ago German troops...
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Living Challenge of Anti-Fascism
My late father, Charles Slucki (Sluggo), used to tell me that April 19, the start of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, is a heylige date, or holy day, his Yom Kippur; that even though he remembered...
Warsaw Ghetto Jews’ secret archive goes on display
WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — Eight decades ago, Jewish archivists facing death in the Warsaw Ghetto hid a trove of documents they hoped would bear testimony to the sufferings of the Holocaust.
Now part of the...
The day Nazis took Warsaw Ghetto jews to Treblinka extermination camp
JULY 22, 1942, dawned hot and muggy in the Warsaw Ghetto. Two years earlier the Nazis had forced the Jewish population of German-occupied Poland into an area occupying just 1.3 square miles surrounded by...