Warsaw Jewish cemetery director fired amid clash over who controls the preservation of Poland’s Jewish past

Witold Wrzosinski, the Jewish director, said he was pushed out on Dec. 10 after seeking a new contract with the Polish ...
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Warsaw Ghetto's defiant Jewish doctors secretly documented the medical effects of Nazi starvation policies in a book rediscovered on a library shelf

In 1942, a group of starving Jewish scientists and doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto were collecting data on their starving patients. They hoped their research would benefit future generations through ...
Sun Sentinel

Archaeology students excavating Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world

In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves. This is Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery and one of the largest ...
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Jewish doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto secretly documented the effects of Nazi-imposed starvation, and the knowledge is helping researchers today – podcast

Starvation was omnipresent in the Warsaw Ghetto for both young and old. Blid Bundesarchiv/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA During the years of suffering and tragedy that defined the Warsaw Ghetto in the ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

Warsaw Jewish cemetery director fired after clashing with state-funded heritage group

Jewish director alleges that the current contract between the foundation and the Jewish community board is “abusive,” limiting the influence of local Jews over projects in their own cemetery. The ...
Seattle Times

Jewish leaders bury remains found in former Warsaw ghetto

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw’s Jewish community buried an unidentified Holocaust victim on Tuesday whose remains were discovered this summer in a building that was within the Warsaw Ghetto during ...
BroadwayWorld

Singer's Warsaw Festival Of Jewish Culture Comes To New York This Month

The internationally acclaimed Singer's Warsaw Festival of Jewish Culture brings three of Poland's leading music and theater artists to New York on Sunday and Monday November 24 & 25, in a unique ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Only Few Jews Found in Ruins of Warsaw by Red Army, Lublin Broadcast Reports

Only a few Jews were found in Warsaw when the Red Army captured the Polish capital on Wednesday, the Lublin radio said today in a Yiddish broadcast. It gave no further details. The broadcast, which ...
Reuters

Jewish museum to be built on site of Warsaw Ghetto

WARSAW (Reuters Life!) - With psalms, poems and popular Yiddish songs, Poles and Jews celebrated on Tuesday the start of construction of a new museum that will chronicle Poland's rich and colorful ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Nazis Complete Plans for ‘fine’ on Warsaw Jews; Levies Collected in Other Towns

Preparations have been completed for the early imposition of a collective “fine” against the Warsaw Jewish population, which numbered about 350,000 before the war, it was learned here today. The “fine ...
Al-Monitor

Warsaw marks anniversary of Jewish ghetto liquidation

The procession passed through the location where Jews were deported from the ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp — Wojtek RADWANSKI Hundreds of people marched through Warsaw on Friday to ...
The Forward

Archaeology students excavating Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world

(JTA) — WARSAW (JTA) — In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves. Some gravestones stand tall and ...