Between November 1940 and May 1943 the ghetto was "home" to more than a half million people imprisoned here by the Nazis. The Nazis planned to execute most of t

Unlike many Holocaust books, which deal primarily with the concentration camps, this book focuses on Jewish life before Jews lost their autonomy and fell totall

Tells story of Irena Sendler who organized the rescue of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II, and the teenagers who started the investigation into Irena's

Charles Roland, a physician and historian, provides the first history of the medical disaster that took place in the Warsaw ghetto.

Recounts the struggle against the Nazi takeover of Warsaw and provides an account of the author's activities as head courier for the ZOB, the Jewish Fighting Or