Ghetto

Harrowing documents of Jews seeking passports to flee Hitler’s death camps handed over to Auschwitz Museum

The unique collection was acquired from a private owner in Israel thanks to the efforts of the Polish Embassy in Bern and Markus Blechner, a Polish honorary consul in Zurich. Auschwitz Museum

The unique collection sent to WWII Polish diplomats known as the Ładoś Group who tried to save the Jews from being murdered, was acquired from a private owner in Israel thanks to the efforts of the Polish Embassy in Bern and Markus Blechner, a Polish honorary consul in Zurich.

Łódź marks Roma camp liquidation in wartime ghetto

Łódź in central Poland on Tuesday marked the 78th anniversary of the closure of a Roma camp in the city's World War Two Jewish ghetto, better known as the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Its inhabitants were killed by the Nazis in a death camp in western Poland.

Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot to play real-life hero Irena Sendler in new film

The 34-year-old Israeli actress and former model said she picked on the story of Irena Sendler, the Polish nurse and social worker who during WWII smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, because she wanted to bring the ‘inspirational story to life’.

Powerful unseen amateur film depicting horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto appears in new documentary

Filmed by champion motorcycle racer Alfons Ziółkowski, the 8mm film records the growing horror of the largest ghetto in German-occupied Europe.

Railway to hell! WWII station from where thousands of Jews were sent to their deaths renovated to house Łódź ghetto monument

“For most people who were imprisoned in the ghetto, Radegast Station was either the first thing they saw after arriving or the last they saw of it before their death. The whole ghetto passed through this point.”

Roma victims of Nazi German ghetto honoured in Poland

The Roma victims of a World War II-era Jewish ghetto were honoured in a ceremony in the central Polish city of Łódź on Thursday.

Litzmannstadt Ghetto girl on special mural in Łódź

A commemorative mural showing a Jewish girl in the World War II Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Łódź, central Poland was unveiled on one of the city's buildings on Sunday. The girl's figure was reproduced from an old photograph, her identity and later fate are unknown.

WWII nuns who saved Jewish children honoured in new exhibition

The nun’s developed a secret network stretching from Warsaw to Ukraine to help Jewish men, women and children escape the horrors of the Holocaust.

Lublin Jews remembered on 76th anniversary of ghetto liquidation

Residents of the eastern Polish city of Lublin commemorated the 1942 liquidation of its Jewish ghetto on Saturday by walking the route along which the Germans led Jews to a local railway siding, from where they were deported to the Belzec German death camp.

Krakow ghetto liquidation anniversary marked

A Remembrance March in Krakow (southern Poland) on Sunday commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto.

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