Poland's historic "New Jerusalem" once housed a vibrant Hasidic Jewish community before being destruction in the horrors of ...

The mayor, community members, dignitaries and Holocaust survivor Leon Weintraub marched together "to promote a future free from racism, antisemitism and hatred."The post March of the Living honors Hol ...

Today, September 1, marks 86 years since Germany invaded Poland and World War II began. Three Holocaust survivors ...

Neuroaesthetics is a relatively young field of research, aiming primarily to explain the phenomena that affect the perception ...

GORA KALWARIA, Poland — The Vistula, Poland’s longest river ... Chanoch of Aleksander who moved the growing court to Aleksandrów Łódzki, a shtetl near Lodz. Four years later, Rebbe Alexander died. His ...

Walking through Warsaw, Poland today feels similar to walking through a large city in the United States. The city has ...

The educator at Lithuania's new Lost Shtetl Museum discusses the history of Jewish life in Lithuania, local complicity in the ...

Stepping inside a large outdoor tent in Warsaw, Poland, is like stepping back in history. The tent now protects what’s left ...

With boundless energy, Bella organized Yiddish events in Israel and promoted its use through video and lectures ...

He remembers “crying a lot.” Szames shared those experiences from World War II and the lessons he learned from them as he ...

Leon Weintraub (99) was born in January 1926 in Łódź, Poland, the youngest of five children. At age 13, he and his family were forced into the Łódź Ghetto. In August 1944, they were deported to ...

Thousands of Hassidic Jews attend a special prayer of Grand Rabbi Benzion Halberstam of Bobov at the Western Wall in Jerusaelm Old City, February... It is not often we find a Holocaust memoir where ...