Warsaw Ghetto

Snow falls on the Okopowa Street Jewish cemtery in Warsaw, Poland. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Human remains found in former Warsaw Ghetto buried in Jewish cemetery

The bones may have belonged to one of the nearly 100,000 Jews who perished there due to the horrid conditions, disease or starvation, or in the uprising.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 17, 2021 9:35 am

10 sets of tefillin that the Shem Olam Holocaust museum said were found in Warsaw, Poland. (Courtesy of Shem Olam Faith & the Holocaust Institute for Education, Documentation & Research)

Israeli Holocaust museum under fire for allegedly smuggling artifacts out of Warsaw

The Shem Olam institute near Hadera said it obtained 10 tefillin sets found by construction workers inside a makeshift bunker dug by Jewish fighters.

January 26, 2021 7:33 am

Kansas teacher honored in Warsaw for bringing Holocaust hero Irena Sendler’s story to light

Norman Conard's students presented a play about the unrecognized work by a Polish social worker in the Warsaw Ghetto.

June 12, 2018 8:58 am

Area under Warsaw Ghetto poised to be named protected archaeological site

January 21, 2018 6:48 am

Warsaw Ghetto museum planned for hospital whose patients were sent to death camp

November 20, 2017 5:07 am

Buried testimony from the Warsaw Ghetto goes on display for the first time in Poland

November 16, 2017 10:03 am

Former Warsaw Ghetto fighter Simcha Rotem wins lawsuit over published love letters

September 24, 2017 9:16 am

Historic Warsaw Ghetto plum tree has second chance to grow

May 10, 2017 8:29 am

First Person

Uncovering my family’s hidden Holocaust stories

By Noah Lederman January 27, 2017 7:56 am

Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto to open, be available online

September 15, 2016 4:48 pm

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