News and updates about Ghetto

Gdansk to build memorial on site of former Jewish ghetto

Announcement comes after campaign by activists who worried encroaching development would make creation of monument impossible.

Gdansk to build memorial on site of former Jewish ghetto

Activists make final appeal for Gdansk ghetto memorial

Polish city urged to build Holocaust memorial on island site of former Jewish ghetto before redevelopment makes it impossible.

Activists make final appeal for Gdansk ghetto memorial

Op-ed

The Houdini of the Vilna Ghetto

Abraham Sutzkever, then the leading modern Yiddish poet, lived in the Vilna Ghetto and was rescued by Russa..His journal is now in English.

The Houdini of the Vilna Ghetto

Sewer hiding place of Jews during WWII unearthed in Ukraine

Ukrainian historian unearths underground hiding place of Jews who dug their way out of the Lviv ghetto during the Holocaust.

Sewer hiding place of Jews during WWII unearthed in Ukraine

Jerusalem yearnings

The yearning was there in Europe's ghettos, Middle East casbahs, the hills of Gondar in Ethiopia, even in the concentration camps.

Jerusalem yearnings

Shtetls, Ghettos to the Jewish State. Nothing has changed.

Shtetls, Ghettos to the Jewish State. Nothing has changed.

Smuggled out of ghetto, photos turn out to be famous US family

Photos from Lithuanian ghetto turn out to be family of America's most prominent Yiddish scholars.

Smuggled out of ghetto, photos turn out to be famous US family

Museum Lets You Take a Tour of the Roman Ghetto

New museum exhibit allows visitors to experience the anti-Semitic confinement of the Jewish ghetto in 3D reconstructed maps.

Museum Lets You Take a Tour of the Roman Ghetto

Better Pension For Former Nazi-Laborer Jews in Germany

Germany amends law to give better pension for Jews who worked under Nazi regime in ghettos, affects 40,000 Jews worldwide.

Better Pension For Former Nazi-Laborer Jews in Germany

The Ghetto Jew and Israel

The Ghetto Jew and Israel

Goodbye, My Grandpa: Telling His Story

Goodbye, My Grandpa: Telling His Story