At the end of World War II in 1945, Irena Sendler and her associates unearthed the glass jars buried under the apple tree and ...

In 1942, a group of starving Jewish scientists and doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto were collecting data on their starving patients. They hoped their research would benefit future generations through ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Eighty years on from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - the largest Jewish revolt against Nazi Germany during World War II - Poland marked the heroism of those who took part with a ...

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 ...

A number of survivors, several centenarians, have died in a wave that underscores the rapid disappearance of anyone alive ...

During the months of April and May 1943, a celebratory atmosphere took hold outside the Warsaw Ghetto’s walls. Children whirled around carousels, giddy crowds converged to holler at the explosive ...

For almost 30 days, a starving, ill-equipped, and almost completely untrained group of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto fought off thousands of German troops, including the supposedly elite SS. These men and ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Merry Fitzpatrick, Tufts University and Irwin Rosenberg, Tufts University (THE ...