Ruth Ackerman, who survived the war by working for a German family under a false name, recalled scanning newly arrived American troops for a single “Jewish face.” The only member of her family to ...

The Polin Museum sought to tell the story of the country’s Jews even as a right-wing government sought to stifle discussions of antisemitism and complicity. WARSAW, Poland — In the heart of the former ...

The story of Jasionowka’s Jews is like thousands of similar stories. A tiny dot on the macabre map that depicts the brutality ...

“Wartime Poland was the closest thing to Hell on this earth,” Father Jan Januszewski, a Dachau survivor, told me shortly before he passed away in Key Largo, Florida, in 1987. When the Germans defeated ...

They hid revolvers in teddy bears, they smuggled explosives in their underwear, they flung Molotov cocktails, they bombed German supply trains, they distributed underground bulletins, and they ...

(RNS) — When I arrived in Warsaw, my hosts took me to the apartment in which I would be staying. “You will stay here,” they said. “You will stay here.” — I had heard that line before. Consider an old ...

Travel case in hand, dressed in fashionable clothing and wearing a practiced, coquettish smile, Hela Schüpper Rufeisen sat aboard the train to Warsaw, Poland. No one on board would have suspected that ...

(JTA) — WARSAW, Poland — In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were killed and their neighborhood razed during World War II, a Jewish community has never recovered — but a museum has ...