In Lodz and Warsaw and other cities with large Jewish populations, the Nazis built ghettos, fenced-off wards of dense, execrable housing. At first, the Jews were merely confined to these areas, but ...

Of 9,000 Czech Jews deported to the Lodz ghetto only nine remain, the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was told today by one of the survivors, Issa Stern-Hoffman, a Prague journalist, ...

An exhibit of unearthed photographs is offering a heartbreaking glimpse into an unforgivable part of our past. With Chip Reid, we uncover it again: Krysia Rosenstein speaks of a childhood of ...

Renia (Wiener) Cyprys, 89, of Syracuse, died Saturday, February 7, 2015, at Crouse Hospital. Born in 1925 in Poland, she was a survivor of the Holocaust including time spent in the Lodz ghetto, ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, it’s also worth a documentary inspired by one. That would be director Slawomir Grünberg’s moving and evocative “Still Life in Lodz,” which centers around a ...

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