The online exhibit tells the story of Yitskhok Rudashevski, who documented his life in the ghetto from 1941 to 1943. Growing up in Vilna in the 1930s, Yitskhok Rudashevski was a typical 13-year-old ...

Few Jews had access to weapons in the Warsaw Ghetto, but they resisted nonetheless. In the Warsaw Ghetto, as in the more than 1200 ghettos into which the Germans forced the Jewish population during ...

THE distinctive thing about the intellectual and artistic life of the Russian Jews of the New York Ghetto is the spirit of realism. Among them are men of learning and talent and of consuming energy.

“Amid Falling Walls,” a new production from the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, brings to life poetry and songs created by Jews during the Holocaust. (New York Jewish Week) – “Humanity’s most ...

The songs represent frustration, fear, protest, the desire for life, hope and consolation, Didner added. “It gave people something they needed, whether it was an hour of distraction or an invaluable ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Holocaust survivor Morris Glass talked about his life in Poland during World War II and his experiences at the Lodz Ghetto. Holocaust survivor Morris ...

Scenes of starving Jewish children smuggling food, a dead body on the sidewalk, were captured in never-before-seen footage of Warsaw's wartime ghetto by an amateur fillmmaker in 1941. For decades, the ...

Art may not be the ghettos’ most urgent need. But more and more museum curators are eager to prove that it does have a role to play in the blighted areas of their cities. They are all too aware that ...

During one of the darkest periods in history, composers continued to create music. The stories of fourteen composers and songs that they created in ghettos and concentration camps will be shared April ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — When Rokhaia Naassan gives birth in the coming days, she and her baby boy will enter a new category in the eyes of Danish law. Because she lives in a low-income immigrant ...