As the sturdiest organization protecting Jewish life in Britain, the CST has strengthened greatly since that day, but this ...

But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead of submitting meekly to the jackboots. Among them were the heroes of the ...

During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary ...

A passion project, Paula Apsell’s “Resistance” is also a corrective to the long-held assumption that as Hitler’s Nazis swore ...

The Holocaust was the first mass atrocity to be heavily photographed. The mass production and distribution of cameras in the 1930s and 1940s enabled Nazi officials and ordinary people to widely ...

Why haven’t I ever heard of this amazing feat of escape? And why don’t I know about any form of Jewish resistance except the Warsaw Ghetto uprising?” This spurred Apsell to produce ...

Finding the stories of individual Jews who fought the Nazis publicly and at great peril helped a scholar see history differently: that Jews were not passive. Instead, they actively fought the Nazis.

Women played an outsized role in the Jewish resistance, risking their lives daily. Because men could so easily be identified as Jews, women played an outsized role in the Jewish resistance ...

The menorah. Image by They had been part of the Bielski partisans, Jewish resistance fighters who battled the Nazis in the forests of Western Belorussia — modern-day Belarus. They rescued Jews ...

Though van de Perre is Jewish, the resistance had given her a false identity. Passing for Aryan was the only thing that kept her from the gas chamber. Van de Perre’s remarkable survival story is ...

AMSTEDAM (JTA) — Henk van Gelderen, a Dutch-Jewish resistance fighter whose textile factory was used to produce yellow stars for the Nazis, died at 98. The De Stentor newspaper reported Tuesday ...