Ghetto

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

One pf the photos shows a group of Jewish men, women and children being hurried under a military escort to Umschlagplatz, the notorious transport hub that took Warsaw’s Jews to Treblinka. Maciej Grzywaczewski, POLIN Museum

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."

The unsung heroines of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Having been ignored for decades, the extraordinary stories of the women who fought tooth and nail against their Nazi oppressors are finally receiving the attention they merit.

Caught red-handed between the past and the future, Praga is a sensory explosion of noise and colour

This was where angels feared to tread. But changes have been meteoric. If Praga was once a byword for abandonment and decay, today it has become a calling card for the very concept of urban regeneration.

Kraków, where my love affair with Poland truly began

Inside a bar thick with smoke, babble, and antique booby traps, I lost myself in the cacophonous atmosphere, gazing helplessly at a barmaid in a tight tiger print top. I’d fallen in love: with her, with Kazimierz, with Kraków and with Poland.

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