While working to repair Nazi helmets, Smuss stole material for Jewish resistance needed to make Molotov cocktails; he ...

Michael Smuss, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland who resisted the Nazis, has died aged 99 in Israel. He joined the ...

On April 19, 1943, a group of Jews living inside the Nazi-created Warsaw Ghetto in Poland began an armed uprising against Hitler’s occupying forces. The monthlong fight represented the largest and ...

WARSAW — Experiencing the Holocaust in Warsaw is largely an act of imagination. The Warsaw Ghetto, once home at its height to approximately 460,000 Jews from 1940 to 1943, was obliterated by the Nazis ...

A study seeks to learn how hundreds of thousands of Jews, crammed in the ghetto by the Nazis, halted an outbreak of epidemic typhus. Some —... Alex Hershaft remembers the special comb. He and his ...

Jews being led for deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images On April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover, German forces ...

On the 76th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jews will celebrate Passover in the Warsaw ghetto. Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler, Cheif Rabbi of Chabad-Poland, is hosting a special Passover Seder ...

This handout negative dated on April 20, 1943, and taken by Polish firefighter Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski negative shows jewish people being evacuated from the Ghetto to Umschlagplatz during the ...

On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor their defensive pact with Poland and declare war on Germany in response. As ...

President Donald Trump has once again earned a sharp rebuke from members of the Jewish community, this time for failing to visit a commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during his short stay in ...

Michael Smuss was born on April 15, 1926, in Danzig, where his family lived until the rise of the Nazi Party. Michael Smuss, ...