Steinman, author of "The Souvenir," is at work on "The Crooked Mirror: A Conversation With Poland." Emanuel Ringelblum was an inveterate optimist who, in 1930s Warsaw, believed that Polish Jewry had a ...

Over a million zlotys were distributed to impoverished Warsaw Jews by the Central Relief Committee here during 1929-30, according to the report of the committee which has just been made public. The ...

This is the sixth in a series about train and bicycle rides from Switzerland to Belarus, in those carefree days before pandemic lockdowns. From the Katyn Museum I biked to a Warsaw Ghetto memorial and ...

Is Broadway ready for dancing girls in the Warsaw ghetto? Can an American musical high kick through the darkest moments of Jewish history and still avoid giving offense, or worse, falling into kitsch?

Young musicians in Poland are reviving what they are calling the country’s golden era -- which was cut short by the Nazi invasion and World War II. Dances from the 1930s such as the foxtrot and tango ...

Roman Polanski’s latest film, The Pianist, is a moving evocation of the Nazi Holocaust, depicted through the experience of a single survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. Polanski does not break new ground, ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... WARSAW, Poland — It was World War II, Warsaw was under German occupation, and the wife of the director of the Warsaw Zoo spotted Nazis approaching the white ...