BEDZIN, Poland — A secret bunker, an underground tunnel and an armband bearing the Star of David are among the rare findings in a house in southern Poland that was used by Jews, including young ...

Remaining in Lithuania after the war, she became a keeper of the flame of the city’s once illustrious Yiddish culture. Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of ...

Before 1942, the Jewish underground in German-occupied Eastern Europe did not view armed resistance as an option according to historian Yisrael Gutman, who was a member of the Jewish Underground in ...

For biblical archeologist Richard A. Freund, who excavated dozens of Holocaust sites, it was critical to not disturb victims’ remains. His use of noninvasive electronic methods was considered by many ...

Young Motele Schlein’s violin cried the sorrow for his family and others persecuted by the Nazis during World War II. On June 22, 1941, the 11-year-old Schlein recounted watched as Nazis entered homes ...

(JTA) — Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of Fania Brantsovsky, the last surviving member of the Jewish underground in the Vilna ghetto and a keeper of the ...