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1 day ago · Websites to help educate about the horrors of the Holocaust. 1. The Life of Bebe Epstein. This first foray into digital education from YIVO, The Institute for Jewish Research, tells the life story of one young girl, who was born in Vilna, Poland, from before the Holocaust through her immigration to the United States.
2 days ago · When the order came to annihilate the ghetto as part of Hitler's "Final Solution" on 19 April 1943, Jewish fighters launched the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Despite being heavily outgunned and outnumbered, the ghetto held out for almost a month.
2 days ago · Before the Holocaust, Częstochowa was considered a great Jewish centre in Poland. By the end of World War II, nearly all Jews had been killed or deported to extermination camps to be killed, making Częstochowa what Nazi Germany called judenfrei.
3 days ago · Israel in the early 1950’s was in poor economic circumstances. Undeterred by his 61-years, my father set his ambitions on America, arriving in New York in 1954.
2 days ago · Poland hosted Europe's largest Jewish diaspora, and the country was a centre of Ashkenazi Jewish culture and traditional learning until the Holocaust.
3 days ago · Jewish partisans in Poland, including Faye Schulman, 1944. Source: JPEF / A Partisan's Memoir, Second Story Press, p. 139.
5 days ago · What does it mean to be Jewish in today's America? We hear from Jewish Washingtonians to learn more about their perspectives.
