This extraordinary film tells the story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna Lithuania during World War II Using rare archival film footage dating from 1939 to 1944 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the sentiment “Never again” emerged in many contexts — from a ...

When the Nazi war against the Jews began, few Jewish people understood that the German’s ultimate goal was the extermination of all the Jews of Europe. One of the first to understand that was the ...

As 2024 comes to a close, we look back and mourn the Jewish icons who have left outsized legacies on politics, the arts, sports and everything in between. In chronological order, here is a selection ...

(JTA) For his doctoral dissertation in history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Yehuda Bauer focused on the British Mandate that before Israel’s independence controlled historic Palestine. In a ...

Yehuda Bauer, who fled Nazi Europe shortly before the outbreak of World War II and became one of the foremost historians of the Holocaust, combining academic rigor with humanity as he confronted an ...

For his doctoral dissertation in history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Yehuda Bauer focused on the British Mandate that before Israel’s independence controlled historic Palestine. In a ...

(JTA) — Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of Fania Brantsovsky, the last surviving member of the Jewish underground in the Vilna ghetto and a keeper of the ...

The Vilna Ghetto Partisans Brigade with famed partisan Abba Kovner (Center, back row) Resistance - They Fought Back! That’s the title of a new documentary on the Jewish resistance to Nazi-led pogroms ...