‘Marek so wanted for people today to know that there was love in the ghetto’, says Paula Sawicka, the psychologist, social activist and confidante of one of the leaders of the of the Warsaw Ghetto ...

WARSAW, Poland – Marian Kalwary can still hear the faint chant of a thin little girl trying to sell insoles to people on a street of the Warsaw ghetto and get food. No one bought them and some days ...

In their effort to communicate complex thoughts, social scientists have borrowed lay terms with impunity. At times, the practice helps to clarify a difficult theory. Perhaps as often, it muddies the ...

Santiago H. Amigorena’s ongoing literary project, he writes, has been “to oppose the silence that has stifled me since birth.” “The Ghetto Within,” he suggests in a preface, is the project’s origin ...

That area -- mostly empty now -- is where Jewish people were forced to live for centuries In preparation for the 500th anniversary of Italy’s Venetian Ghetto, Ziyah Gafic scoured the 7-acre-wide part ...

People walk near the mark in the pavement that shows where the wall around the Warsaw Ghetto used to be on Chlodna street AFP A child's burnt shoe, a charred pram, shattered kitchenware -- the items ...

Alex Hershaft remembers the special comb. He and his family were living in the Warsaw ghetto. It was 1940. He was a little boy, about 6 years old. A disease known as epidemic typhus was spreading ...

Starving violinist on the street, 1940-1944. Self-portrait of Henryk Ross standing on top of a ladder, 1940-1944. Henryk Ross—Art Gallery of Ontario Sometimes a camera is more than a tool to document, ...