Ghetto

Lovingly painted childhood memories reveal life in prewar Jewish town

Through an astonishing act of memory and love for his former home, Mayer Kirshenblatt's canvases breathe life into the town of Opatów’s streets and offer glimpses into the daily lives of its Jewish residents. Collection of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Through an astonishing act of memory and love for his former home, Mayer Kirshenblatt's canvases breathe life into the town of Opatów’s streets and offer glimpses into the daily lives of its Jewish residents.

Calls to rename Ghetto Uprising square after doubt cast over its current namesake

The Jewish Historical Institute is now calling for the square to be renamed in honour of Rachel Auerbach, a member of the Oneg Shabbat group, a social activist who ran a people's kitchen in the Warsaw Ghetto, and documented the Holocaust.

Powerful ‘thriller’ documentary reveals extraordinary life story of ‘The Pianist’ cousin Leo Spellman

VIDEO: Named The Rhapsody the documentary is billed as being is the astonishing story of composer Leo Spellman, a Polish Holocaust survivor who sets out on a riveting and emotional journey towards artistic liberation at the age of ninety-eight. The film features a musical masterpiece lost for more than fifty years; the revelation of a secret wartime diary; a harrowing tale of survival.’

Harrowing never-before-seen photos from Warsaw Ghetto Uprising found in family attic

Hailed as being ‘priceless’ and ‘unique’, the pictures were taken secretly in 1943 by Polish firefighter Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski as he protected Warsaw from the ghetto flames.

Archeologists unearth Jewish girl’s shoe at site of WWII ghetto bunker

During WWII, the site of the dig in what is now Warsaw’s Muranów district was the headquarters of the Jewish Combat Organisation, which was instrumental in organising and launching the ghetto uprising.

It’s a wrap: filming of Holocaust epic finishes in Lublin

The international production tells the story of Irena Gut, a Polish nurse who hid twelve Jews under the nose of a Wehrmacht officer. Featuring a star-studded cast, the film will premier in cinemas next year.

Researchers discover WWII sewers where Jews hid to escape Holocaust

Made famous by Agnieszka Holland’s film In Darkness, archaeologists in the city of Lwów also found the remains of personal belongings leading one to exclaim: “I immediately had the impression I had broken into someone's apartment." 

Otwock: A living museum, a town generously sprinkled with architectural gems and little hidden treasures

Set a stone’s throw south-east of Warsaw, Otwock is an oversight that demands to be corrected.

Observances marking Lodz ghetto liquidation anniversary start

A burial of Torah scrolls at the Lodz cemetery, central Poland, on Sunday, marked the beginning of observations commemorating the 77th anniversary of the liquidation of the World War II Litzmannstadt Ghetto in the city.

German state broadcaster apologises for "Polish ghetto" misnomer

German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle on Thursday apologised for using the term "Polish ghettos" to describe World War II Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland, but refused to remove the offensive text "for the sake of transparency."

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