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Warsaw Ghetto

The Polish flag with Warsaw in the background. Credit: Velishchuk Yevhen/Shutterstock.

Jewish life in Polish capital thriving 80 years after Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

“More Jews than ever before are flocking to our Jewish communal center,” according to Chabad Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler.

May 18, 2023

Monument to the Warsaw Uprising Fighters located in a part of the former Warsaw Ghetto. Photo by Isaac Harari/Flash90.

80 years ago, a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising play aimed to save European Jews

NBC Radio and the AJC teamed up on “The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto,” penned by Jewish playwright Morton Wishengrad.

Samantha Baskind

April 18, 2023

Warsaw Ghetto Square at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The power of the human spirit

This Holocaust Remembrance Day, let us celebrate Jewish resistance.

April 17, 2023

Captured Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are rounded up by the Waffen SS on Nowolipie Street between April 19 and May 16, 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

‘From Every Floor, From Every Window:’ Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The energy and the intensity shown by the 700 poorly armed young Jewish fighters reflected the understanding, deep in their hearts, that the battle for the ghetto was not ultimately one in which they would prevail.

April 14, 2023

Zachary Mazur, a senior historian at the Warsaw-based POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Photo by Michał Wilczewski, Northwestern University.

Misconceptions about Warsaw Ghetto Uprising abound, says historian Zachary Mazur

Ahead of a lecture commemorating the 80th anniversary of the uprising, Mazur told JNS that “there is plenty of ignorance” about the uprising and its context.

Menachem Wecker

April 3, 2023

The Mordechai Anielewicz statue at the Yad Mordechai kibbutz in southern Israel. Anielewicz was the young leader of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against Nazi Germans for a month from April into May of 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Five facts for its 80th anniversary

Those who fought back against the Nazis were able to obtain guns from criminal sources and from contacts in the Polish resistance Home Army.

April 2, 2023

Jews in the process of being deported from the Warsaw Ghetto following the revolt of April-May 1943. From the family archives of Maciej Grzywaczewski, son of Leszek Grzywaczewski. Photo by Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski. Credit: POLIN Museum.

‘Images will stay with me for the rest of my life’: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising photos revealed

The photographer, fireman Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski, spent nearly four weeks in the ghetto.

January 17, 2023

Powązki Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, Oct. 25, 2012. Credit: Jolanta Dyr via Wikimedia Commons.

Warsaw’s Jewish community buries remains found of unidentified Holocaust victim

The human bones were found in a basement, thought to have resulted from a Jew hiding from German forces that destroyed the area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.

September 14, 2021

A building from the Warsaw Ghetto with pictures of Jews on the facade. Credit: Anastasia Petrova/Shutterstock.

New monument pays tribute to archive hidden by Jews in Warsaw Ghetto

It includes official documents, underground publications, statistics on those who died, firsthand testimonies, ration cards used in the ghetto, medical prescriptions, even candy wrappers.

April 21, 2021