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Warsaw ghetto uprising
January 18, 2024, 5:46 pm
Review: Not Even the Dogs – The Old Red Lion Theatre, London
A must-see new play in Islington, wonderfully directed by Josh Baumring-Gledhill and Josh Myers, tells the true story of the Jewish academic Emanuel Ringelblum, who lived in Warsaw in the 1930s and 1940s
By Jewish News
A few hundred politicians, Jewish leaders and others marked the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at the Ghetto Heroes Monument in Warsaw, April 19, 2023. (Artur Widak/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
April 20, 2023, 8:55 am
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s 80th anniversary marked with daffodils, 3 presidents and an 11th commandment against ‘indifference’
Roughly 13,000 Jews were were burnt alive or suffocated as the Nazis burnt down the ghetto to quell the rebellion, sending the remaining some 50,000 Jews to be murdered further east.
By Dinah Spritzer (JTA)
Children's Choir with dignitaries. Pic: Meron Persey Photography.
April 18, 2023, 9:39 am
Live streamed Yom HaShoah ceremony marks 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Annual remembrance day was held at Jewish Care's Holocaust Survivors Centre on Monday evening.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Mala Tribich addressing the March of the Living group at the Temple synagogue in Krakow. Pic: HMDT
April 17, 2023, 12:12 pm
OPINION: The fight against oppression continues, 80 years after the Warsaw uprising
The 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is a fitting opportunity to humanise Nazi victims and resistance fighters, writes Rachel Century of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
By Rachel Century
Rachel Auerbach
May 24, 2022, 6:57 pm
Movie chiefs producing first translation of seminal history of Warsaw Ghetto
Rachel Auerbach's Yiddish chronicle of the uprising against Nazi oppressors to be made into book, audio and website in English - and you could help ensure it is funded
By Toby Porter
March of the Living in Poland (Jewish News)
April 28, 2022, 10:51 am
OPINION: Jewish history must not be erased from our curriculum
It is not fashionable to support Israel currently but we need robust zionist education.
By Maddie Schumann
Women from all backgrounds took part in the uprising
April 23, 2021, 2:19 pm
Women of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising remembered
This year's commemorations celebrates the part played by women, including teenagers and mothers, who helped fight the German troops.
Captured Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto are led by German troops to the assembly point for deportation.
April 21, 2021, 4:08 pm
Warsaw unveils monument to underground archive that documented Shoah horror
The commemoration of the Ringelblum Archive was timed to the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
By JTA
Poland's President Andrzej Duda speaks during state ceremonies in homage to the victims and fighters of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, on the 75th anniversary of the start of the revolt, in front of the Monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes, in Warsaw, Poland, (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
April 19, 2018, 2:26 pm
Warsaw pauses to remember 75 years since Ghetto Uprising
Poland's President Andrzej Duda speaks during state ceremony to remember victims of the revolt against German Nazi oppression
Captured Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto are led by German troops to the assembly point for deportation.
April 19, 2018, 12:54 pm
Warsaw church bells ring to mark 75 years since ghetto uprising
Catholic leaders in the Polish capital mark the revolt by telling communities to commemorate those who died
From Warsaw Ghetto uprising to 70 years of the Jewish State
April 19, 2018, 12:36 pm
OPINION: Learning from the past to build a better future
Jonny Daniels reflects on coinciding of the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Israel's birthday
Abba Kovner stands at the centre of the Vilna Ghetto Fighters, some of whom later joined Nakam (The Avengers)
January 25, 2018, 10:51 am
The Holocaust Avengers: ‘Most wished they could have killed more Nazis’
New documentary Holocaust: The Revenge Plot, airing on Channel 4, reveals an audacious plan by survivors to kill six million Germans
By Francine Wolfisz
Captured Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto are led by German troops to the assembly point for deportation.
August 11, 2017, 1:08 pm
Harvey Weinstein to direct film on Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Legendary Hollywood producer to adapt Leon Uris’ book 'Mila 18' about the revolt for the silver screen
By JTA
July 7, 2017, 2:04 pm
Ivanka Trump visits Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial
Jewish daughter of the American President lays wreath and pays respects in Poland this week
By JTA
May 19, 2016, 3:54 pm
My Jewish Hero: This week… Mordechai Anielewiscz
Tom Francies selects a hero from the Warsaw Ghetto uprising as his inspirational Jewish figure
By Tom Francies
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