Tag: Warsaw Ghetto
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...
Ghosts of jewish Warsaw don’t haunt the city, but murmur in background
The ghosts of Jewish Warsaw don’t haunt the city, but they do murmur in the background.
Home to 375,000 Jews on the eve of the Second World War – one-third of the city’s population at...