During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked down and shot. Fifty-eight Sobibor inmates survived the war Meilan Solly - ...

I NEVER thought I would be treading an Oscar-winning path to glory, but when I took a trip to Lublin, that is exactly what I did. Lublin is a vibrant, modern city in Eastern Poland and one that ...

The Boston Jewish Film Festival returns this November for its 37th year. The festival runs from Nov. 5-16, with screenings at ...

Timothy Koons-McGee, who grew up in Red Lion, was close with his grandfather, Stewart Knisley, who helped liberate Buchenwald ...

Michael Smuss, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland who resisted the Nazis, has died aged 99 in Israel. He joined the ghetto uprising as a teenager in 1943, helping to make petrol bombs. Taken ...

Abraham Beame was the first Jewish mayor of New York, though from a halachic standpoint, it may have been Fiorello LaGuardia, ...

Pascal Bonitzer's 'Auction,' which concerns the provenance of an Egon Schiele painting, joins movies like 'The Train' and ...

A remarkable movie is opening in San Francisco this weekend that subverts the traditional view of a Holocaust documentary. Yoav Potash's "Among Neighbors" is at times more like an absorbing true crime ...

Smuss fought Nazi soldiers with Molotov cocktails during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of World War II and became a painter ...

Two men discover their fathers' WWII connection when a sergeant liberated a concentration camp, saving 200 lives including ...

From black-and-white classics like 'Casablanca' to colorized epics like 'War & Peace', here are the best war movies streaming on HBO Max right now.

COURT HOUSE – Refugees are a natural consequence of war, as the civilian population flees bombs, tanks and advancing soldiers ...