KRAKOW, Poland (JTA) — An activist who says he ... The building stands in what used to be the Lodz Ghetto. Dul shouted “I did it, I hung a Jew,” the report said. Police officers documented ...

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

Moments after arriving in Lodz, central Poland, my taxi driver asks what other Polish destinations I’ve visited. I mention Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw and Krakow, and he smiles. “Well,” he says.

At the time, Mr. Turski was 13, living in the Polish city of Lodz with his parents and younger brother. They were soon ...

A visit to the Lodz ghetto in Nazi occupied Poland, recorded by German cameramen with the naive cooperation of the Jewish community, is combined with rare archival footage, clips from international ...

Deutscher, a Jewish woman from Lodz, left Poland after the war broke out and went to London, leaving behind her family in the Warsaw Ghetto. The family was able to send letters to Deutscher via ...

Speaking in 2020 at the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where he was shipped from the Lodz ghetto when he was a teenager ...

As a teenager, Turski was shipped from Poland’s Lodz ghetto to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. His father and brother were killed there. Altogether 39 of his family members were ...