The Hamizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi response to the Warsaw ghetto uprising exhibited a greater range of complexity than that of other Jewish movements. On the one hand, its press described the European Jewish masses as going like "sheep to the slaughter" and voiced admiring identification with the...
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navigation.We want maps to show us where places and things are or where they once were.I think of this as the locational imperative of mapping. The cardinal sin of anyserious map is to mislocate something, or to omit something we expect to see.Doubting the veracity or completeness of a ...
Just across the Vistula River from Kazimierz, the district of Podgorze was formerly an independent city before becoming part of Krakow in 1795. It has a dark history, however. During World War II, the Nazis used this district as the ghetto for the displaced Jewish inhabitants of Krakow. Oska...
Ghetto, formerly a street, or quarter, of a city set apart as a legally enforced residence area for Jews. More recently, the term ghetto has come to apply to any urban area exclusively settled by a minority group, such as African Americans or one of vari
The Warsaw Ghetto was an 840-acre (340-hectare) area of Warsaw that consisted of the city’s old Jewish quarter. During the German occupation of Poland, the Nazis forced nearly 500,000 Polish Jews to live in inhuman conditions within the walled district.
which contains the body of a Polishyouthkilled in the battle for Lwów in 1919, bears only inscriptions starting with theSpanish Civil Warin 1937. There is an imposing monument unveiled in 1948 in the Muranȯw area honoring the heroes of theWarsaw Ghetto Uprising(1943), but not until 198...
Battle of Stalingrad August 22, 1942 - February 2, 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 19, 1943 - May 16, 1943 Operation Fortitude 1944 Normandy Invasion June 6, 1944 - July 9, 1944 Battle of Saipan June 15, 1944 - July 9, 1944
Battle of Stalingrad August 22, 1942 - February 2, 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 19, 1943 - May 16, 1943 Operation Fortitude 1944 Normandy Invasion June 6, 1944 - July 9, 1944 Battle of Saipan June 15, 1944 - July 9, 1944
Battle of Iwo Jima (February 19–March 16, 1945), World War II battle fought between the United States and Japan over a strategically important island some 760 miles (1,220 km) south of Tokyo. A photo of Marines raising the American flag atop Iwo Jima’s