During the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II, Jewish residents in Warsaw were forcibly confined to a district known as the Warsaw Ghetto. The crowded, unsanitary conditions and meager food ...

In 1942, a group of starving Jewish scientists and doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto were collecting data on their starving patients. They hoped their research would benefit future generations through ...

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 ...

Living space in the Warsaw ghetto is so restricted that two families have to be accommodated in a single room, the Polish Telegraphic Agency learns from a reliable informant who has arrived in ...

New modelling of Typhus infections in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII reveals how public health interventions eradicated the disease. Through state-of-the-art mathematical modelling and historical ...

For almost 30 days, a starving, ill-equipped, and almost completely untrained group of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto fought off thousands of German troops, including the supposedly elite SS. These men and ...

During the months of April and May 1943, a celebratory atmosphere took hold outside the Warsaw Ghetto’s walls. Children whirled around carousels, giddy crowds converged to holler at the explosive ...

A grim insight into the ghetto conditions prevailing in Nazi-occupied Poland is offered in a letter from Warsaw made public here today by the American Friends of Polish Democracy. The letter ...

A study seeks to learn how hundreds of thousands of Jews, crammed in the ghetto by the Nazis, halted an outbreak of epidemic typhus. Some —... Alex Hershaft remembers the special comb. He and his ...

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 ...