The local Jewish population was forced into a local ghetto and its property was looted by the Nazis during the Holocaust ... About 40,000 Jews lived in Gomel in 1939, comprising nearly 30% of the ...

COMMENTARY: During the Nazi occupation of Poland, 32 Jewish people came to Jackowski seeking refuge. He risked death to help ...

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

In the Warsaw ghetto, for example, upwards of 60 percent of its inhabitants subsisted on a starvation ... Polish Jews who fled to the Soviet Union after Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, ...

Jews were tragically expelled from the Austrian capital three times, but when allowed to were able to reach great heights, ...

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

Elyse Semerdjian, “Gazafication and Genocide by Attrition in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh and the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” Journal of Genocide Research (2024). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write ...

Berlin likewise was dark. In contrast to the grimness of the western capitals, the Polish capital of Warsaw rang with jubilant shouts at the news that Great Britain and France had come into the ...

Important events of 1939 and the start of the Second World War, including Prime Minister Chamberlain’s (pictured to the left) ultimatum to Hitler; withdraw German troops from Poland or war will be ...

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