In 1516, a 7-acre section of Venice, Italy was designated as the area where Jews would be required to live. As it was located where a copper foundry had been, it was called by the word for ‘foundry’ ...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began 82 years ago today, is now universally hailed as a bold act of Jewish resistance against the Nazis. But at the time, many Poles watched — or cheered — as the ...

Eighty-one years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, few survivors are still alive to recount the horrors endured there. Pinchas Gutter was just seven years old when Nazi officers came to his childhood ...

Historian and archivist Hyman debuts with a meticulous portrait of five women central to the resistance movement within the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. Among those profiled are Vladka Meed, who ...

The plane slowly descends from white clouds and sweeps over a panorama of a city destroyed by the Nazis: the skeletons of bombed bridges jutting from a quiet river, the empty walls of burned-out ...

A Warsaw memorial recognizing the more than 300,000 souls who died at the Nazis’ Treblinka extermination camp was defaced with graffiti equating the Holocaust with the war in Gaza. The Umschlagplatz ...