But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead ...

The Warsaw Ghetto was a death warrant. Among those who were forcibly collected and sealed to die within its walls was my ...

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

During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary is on PBS. A discussion I led is on YouTube ...

Commemorations are being held Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet ...

On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany's attack on Poland triggered World War II, prompting France and the United Kingdom to honor ...

Holocaust survivors and guests sit at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during ...

(JTA) — For the last 80 years, the only way to see images of Jews rising up against their captors in the Warsaw Ghetto has been from the perspective of Germans, who took the only known ...

Remembering the atrocities at Auschwitz is vital, but we can’t lose sight of the fact that Auschwitz is only one part of the ...

On the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Francis also noted that many Christians were killed in Nazi concentration camps.

Between 1940 and 1943 a group of dedicated writers, led by historian Emanuel Ringeblum, secretly recorded daily Jewish existence in the Warsaw Ghetto. It would become history as survival.

- In this 1943 file photo, a group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers during the destruction ...