EXCLUSIVE: ARTE France has ordered a feature doc about the role of Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust. Ghettoes of the Shoah (La Shoah des Ghettos) will run in the cultural network’s prime-time ...

EVIL AGAIN. THE SISTERS ARE WELL KNOWN IN ITALY AS DEIRDRE FITZPATRICK FOUND OUT WHILE WALKING THROUGH ROME’S JEWISH GHETTO. IT’S A PLACE WHERE BEAUTY AND TRAGEDY INTERTWINE, AND WHERE ONE ONLY HAS TO ...

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 ...

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 ...

For biblical archeologist Richard A. Freund, who excavated dozens of Holocaust sites, it was critical to not disturb victims’ remains. His use of noninvasive electronic methods was considered by many ...

U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken sent a message Wednesday marking the anniversary in Poland of the 1943 Bialystok ghetto uprising, saying it was an act of "bravery" that reaffirmed the dignity of ...

Princeton University professor of sociology Mitchell Duneier emphasized both the negative history and modern-day understanding of ghettos in the United States in a discussion hosted by the Center for ...

Jan. 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Remembering Auschwitz is, of course, tremendously important. It’s ...