“Voices From the Warsaw Ghetto,” edited by David Roskies ’69, MA’71, PhD’75, is a book of unrelenting power. You read it the way you might burn through a fever: dizzied by its force, aware that you ...
The Nazi German occupying forces attempted to enter the Warsaw Ghetto to deport the last surviving members of the city’s Jewish population to the Majdanek and Treblinka death camps. But instead of ...
Buses, cars, passersby, children playing nearby: the life of Warsaw doesn’t let you forget where you are ... forced Jewish residents of the city to live in the Ghetto and deported roughly 250 thousand ...
“As German federal president, I stand before you today and bow to the courageous fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto,” Steinmeier told a few hundred politicians, Jewish leaders and others at the ...
In plain daylight, in front of the courthouse in the heart of the Nazi capital, she protested in front of passersby ... such as the Warsaw ghetto uprising. But in the dominant understanding ...
(JTA) — For the last 80 years, the only way to see images of Jews rising up against their captors in the Warsaw Ghetto has been from the perspective of Germans, who took the only known ...