Video: For Yom Hashoah, watch this inspiring program honoring the Warsaw Ghetto fighters
The event featured a talk by Julia Mintz, whose directing has focused on narratives of resistance against unimaginable odds
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian demonstrator is removed from Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration in Poland
The protester, who unfurled a Palestinian flag, stood silently during the ceremony to mark the anniversary of the uprising against the Nazis
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Culture Could this be the most meaningful Holocaust memorial in New York?
In Riverside Park, a stone meant to be a placeholder for a grander memorial has become an unlikely gathering place for Bundist Holocaust survivors and their descendants
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Art A nuanced and disquieting vision of Europe after the Holocaust
Thirty years ago, photographer Jill Freedman sought to document sites of destruction and the resurgence of Jewish life
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Fast Forward Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s 80th anniversary remembered with daffodils, 3 presidents and an 11th commandment against ‘indifference’
For the first time, the presidents of Germany, Israel and Poland came together for a ceremony to commemorate the fighters, none of whom are alive today
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Culture His family died in the Warsaw ghetto — in these paintings, he honored their fight
'These faces don't let me rest,' Maurice Mendjizky told a friend
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Forverts in English 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — how to commemorate it
There will be a ceremony honoring the ghetto fighters in Riverside Park as well as a recording of it provided right afterwards.
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Opinion To memorialize their salvation, survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto built a sewer
The Warsaw Ghetto Survivor’s Memorial is designed to look like a sewer — once the source of weapons, of food, of information for Jews stuck in the ghetto.
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