Meanwhile, during 1940-41, the Nazi authorities systematically drove tens of thousands of Jews from outlying small towns into the capital and settled them forcibly in the Warsaw ghetto. The first ...

Zygelbaum, who escaped from the Warsaw ghetto six months after the Nazi occupation ... resisted the orders of the Nazi occupational authorities. In 1939 he refused their demand that Jewish ...

The National Defence Fund, operating in Poland before World War II, managed to collect about one billion Polish złoty to ...

Nazi authorities in occupied Poland have dissolved the Jewish Council in the Warsaw ghetto and have instead appointed a Nazi official to supervise Jewish affairs, it was reported here today by ...

In 1939, neither the British nor French air force ... have attended commemorative ceremonies in recent years for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising - two wartime uprisings in ...

Treblinka concentration camp was located just 20 km from Bransk and functioned as a killing center for the Jews of the Warsaw region. Like other death camp sites, Treblinka was linked by rail to ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned Second World War places that ...

"It was a holy city for me,” she says. The city of the Warsaw Uprising and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a place where people paid for dignity and independence with their lives. This heritage ...

In the 1930s, the area housed the bulk of Warsaw's Jewish population. By late 1940, the Nazis (who occupied Poland at the time) turned the region into a ghetto, and its residents either died from ...

When the country was plunged into war in September 1939, her friend and mentor Emanuel ... number of individual variations.” Like the Warsaw-ghetto diarist Chaim A. Kaplan, she describes streets ...