The Bielski Partisans waged plenty of combat action against the Nazi scourge, much to the chagrin of the oppressors. January ...

International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established in 2005 according to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and is observed on January 27 each year. It correspo ...

As the Jewish Virtual Library reported, Yom HaShoah was established in 1951 (confirmed by law in 1959) in Israel, and falls on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Because this is where ...

Among them were the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising actually occurred in two phases: (1) a smaller-scale uprising that flared up on January 18, 1943 ...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the first armed battle against the Germans, though far from the only one. Some type of ...

Finding the stories of individual Jews who fought the Nazis publicly and at great peril helped a scholar see history differently: that Jews were not passive. Instead, they actively fought the Nazis.

I had never heard of this tunnel! Or any other example of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust (excepting the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943, which all of us have heard of).” Apsell reveals ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The world’s focus will be on the remaining survivors of Nazi Germany’s atrocities on Monday as world leaders and royalty join them for commemorations on the 80th ...

Israel commemorates its own Holocaust Remembrance Day in the spring, on the Hebrew date of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

(AP Photo, File) In this 1943 file photo, a group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in ...

Recent Holocaust movies have won multiple Academy Awards ... It also imposes limits on what we know. Events like the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which Jews took up arms and fought the Nazis for ...