Warsaw ghetto uprising survivors

Nazi war criminal's chilling account of Warsaw Ghetto destruction reaches English readers

After decades of being translated into over 15 languages and adapted for the stage and screen, “Conversations with an Executioner” was published Tuesday for the first time in English.

|BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
Jürgen Stroop watches his troops raze the Warsaw Ghetto.
Michael Smuss, last survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, dies at 99, October 23, 2025.

Last Warsaw Ghetto Uprising survivor Michael Smuss dies at 99

Michael Smuss was born on April 15, 1926, in Danzig, where his family lived until the rise of the Nazi Party.

|ByYOAV ETIEL
NEW IMMIGRANTS arrive at Haifa Port after World War II and are greeted by family and friends.

Israel’s future depends on embracing the lessons of Holocaust survivors - opinion

Just before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we have an opportunity to learn from the spirit of those Holocaust survivors who arrived in Israel and draw inspiration from what they created.

|ByYIGAL COHEN
A WOMAN LAYS daffodils during the commemoration of the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in front of the Warsaw Ghetto monument in 2021.

Studying Jabotinsky's ideas about Jewish pride - a way to honor Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - opinion

Holocaust Remembrance Day was created by the Israeli government to be near the anniversary of the uprising on the Jewish calendar was the correct choice.

|ByMOSHE PHILLIPS

The way it was….

Expressed in Yiddish

APRIL 12, 2018ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
THIS ICONIC photo shows Jews being captured by the Nazis during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943

Ghetto Fighters’ Museum exhibits seek to bring past to younger generation

‘This exhibition is the story of life,’ curator says.

JANUARY 22, 2018ByTAMARA ZIEVE
Members of a pioneer youth movement, shown in a Ghetto Fighter's House Musem exhibition.

Harvey Weinstein to adapt 'Mila 18' as film

Hollywood producer has long dreamed of tackling tale of Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

AUGUST 9, 2017ByAMY SPIRO
A scene from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943

Trump connects Europe's Soviet and Nazi past with global war on terror

US President Donald Trump commemorated the horrors Poland suffered during both Soviet and Nazi occupations during a speech in Warsaw.

JULY 6, 2017ByBECKY BROTHMAN
US.President Donald Trump gestures as he gives a public speech at Krasinski Square in Warsaw, Poland July 6, 2017

Warsaw Ghetto heroine dies

Hela Schuepper Rufeisen, one of the last survivors of Warsaw Uprising, passed away on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

APRIL 24, 2017ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
A STREET in Warsaw destroyed during the failed 1944 uprising against Nazi occupiers

Former defense minister Arens regales US students with Warsaw Ghetto history

“The youth of the uprising wanted to make sure that when people thought of the Holocaust, they knew the Jewish people resisted when they had the chance.”

JULY 5, 2016BySOPHIE ASHKINAZE-COLLENDER
Moshe Arens signs copies of his book 'Flags over the Warsaw Ghetto' for students from Boston Onward Israel Monday night in Jerusalem.

Books: The Book of Aron

Through the first-person narrative of a child, "The Book of Aron" provides a powerful and poignant reminder of the stark moral choices the Jews of Warsaw were forced to make.

JUNE 18, 2015By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER
A part of the scene on the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw.

Last surviving Revisionist Warsaw Ghetto fighter dies

Ziuta Hartman-Rutenberg, born in 1922 in Kielce, took part in the revolt against the Nazis as part of the underground group founded by members of the militant Jabotinsky Betar youth movement.

MAY 21, 2015BySAM SOKOL
ZIUTA HARTMAN-RUTENBERG