Mr Turski survived the Lodz Ghetto, extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and two death marches as a teenager.

“With love to Mom, from Avram. Lodz Ghetto. March, 1943,” reads the inscription in Polish on the amulet, which was made from two old coins. The son apparently made the amulet for his mother so ...

210,000 Polish In 1940 Jews were forced to live in the Lodz ghetto, 2.5 sqm. Most were deported to extermination camps while others either died from disease or hunger. By the end of the war only ...

(JTA) — Part of a blood-stained prayer shawl from a 1940 Yom Kippur pogrom was found in the former ghetto of Lodz, Poland and brought to Israel, its finder said. The part of the shawl ...

A Polish Jew. A person without whom our museum would not exist,” the museum director, Zygmunt Stępiński, wrote in a statement. Turski survived the Lodz ghetto, where he and his family were ...

A Polish Jew. A person without whom our museum would not exist,” the museum director, Zygmunt Stępiński, wrote in a statement. Turski survived the Lodz ghetto, where he and his family were ...