History

New Images Discovered in Poland Offer Never-Before-Seen Perspective on Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

For the last 80 years, the only way to see images of Jews rising up against their captors in the Warsaw Ghetto has been...

‘U.N. Exhibit Remembers’ When the World Turned Its Back on Stateless Jewish Refugees

Andrew Silow-Carroll | New York Jewish Week via JTA In 2017, Deborah Veach went back to Germany, looking for the site of the displaced persons...

Massive trove of prewar Jewish artifacts unearthed by construction workers in Poland

Construction workers renovating an old tenement house in Lodz, Poland, unearthed a surprising find: an untouched cache of hundreds of Jewish artifacts believed to...

Columbia scores big in two national rankings on livable cities

Columbia, Md., has made headlines twice in just a few weeks — and for good reason. The fairly new locale in terms of American history...

Decades After the Holocaust, Efforts to Return Nazi-Looted Art Are Slow, Steady

It’s never just as simple as “finders keepers, losers weepers.” In June, the Philadelphia Museum of Art returned a 16th-century marksman’s shield in its possession...