Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

From past to present, Jews speak out in one voice

By Beth Kissileff — November 24, 2023
(RNS) — What does it mean for Jews to speak out at this moment?

Remembering the children of the Warsaw Ghetto on the 75th anniversary of the uprising

By Samantha Baskind — April 19, 2018
(RNS) — While the Warsaw Ghetto uprising offers a narrative that has been vibrantly told again and again, mythologized by an American culture that craves happy endings, however feeble they may be, the ghetto’s story also speaks to a different kind of memory: one of lost innocence and mercilessness.

On the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

By Lauren Markoe — April 16, 2018
(RNS) — Living in America, I escaped the Nazis in those horrendous years. But I am forever haunted by the knowledge that had I been born in Transylvania instead of Pennsylvania, I would likely have been one of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
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