These photographs show the streets of Warsaw, and the ruins and flames over the Warsaw Ghetto. They were taken in April-May of 1943 during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as the Germans began burning the ghetto block by block. The photographs by Rudolf Damec, a Polish man living in Warsaw, were rediscovered just a few years ago by his granddaughter. On April 19, we will join the POLIN Museum (Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN) by wearing daffodils as a symbol of #RememberingTogether in honor of t

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began 75 years ago. Today, one of the last survivors tells her story to warn about right-wing extremism. | DW Stories

This documentary combines archive footage and AI simulations to highlight the less-familiar story of the doomed Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, which began in January 1943. That year, six months after the Great Deportations to the extermination camps, two main underground groups, the Jewish Combat Organization and the Jewish Military Organization , planned a bold action to rise up against their Nazi oppressors. However, events unfolded unexpectedly, leading to a spontaneous uprising that t