By that time, many in the ghetto knew the Nazis were systematically murdering Jews in the camps, he recalled.
Spike Lee, who recently directed "Clockers, " a movie about drugs in the ghetto, said that he's taking a break from making that kind of film.
We meet the poet, Wladislaw Szlengel, as he sits by his phone in the ghetto, looking through his window to the park on the other side.
We went out to the roof to see what's happening, we saw fires, we saw people on the roofs in the ghetto screaming, begging God to help them.
Meanwhile, Torfaen council enlisted the help of an Elvis impersonator to make a comical video highlighting the work of its gritting teams to the tune of In The Ghetto.
Tusk called him an "exceptional man, " saying "his bravery was a testament to the courage of the fighters of the Jewish Fighting Organization, " as the largest Jewish resistance movement in the ghetto was known.
His deep and unwavering dedication to children was expressed until the moment of his death in 1942, when he chose to accompany the children of his orphanage, in the Warsaw Ghetto, to the Treblinka extermination camp where they all perished together.
He later committed suicide in the Terezin ghetto, in Czechoslovakia.
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This somewhat forced moral structure is made up for by Ms de Loo's rich evocation of life in the Budapest ghetto and by her ability, in pared-down prose, to convey Kata's and Stefan's own confusions and anxieties.
At the neon-pink-walled factory of Soul Stix Surfboards, in the surf ghetto of San Clemente, Calif.
Suspicion falls on two aboriginal boys who live in the nearby ghetto known as The Daunt.
The article is accompanied by a famous image of a Jewish child being searched in the Warsaw ghetto.
In 1943, during World War II, tens of thousands of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto began waging a valiant but futile battle against Nazi forces.
One of my parents' closest friends spent the war first in the Lodz ghetto in occupied Poland, then survived a concentration camp by lying about his age.
It was the first ghetto in the world, and was the reason why Shakespeare had his character Shylock live in Venice.
The Nazis reduced the ghetto to rubble in the process of flushing resistance fighters out of their bunkers.
In 1940, Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, sealing in its 400, 000 inhabitants.
In November 1765, a respected doctor from a good Venetian family died in the Campo Santi Apostoli, near the Jewish ghetto in Venice.
It was into this culture that I flung, as it were, A Place at the Table, arguing, in essence, against the idea of a gay ghetto, whether in life or in culture.
Mink DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song.
Mr Ganzfried's juxtapositions of life in the shtetl, the ghetto and the concentration camp with the ethnic tensions of modern New York are as effective.
An example is the expanding ghetto behind the Bombay Hotel in Ahmedabad, Gujarat's main city.
These pushcart affairs can be found anywhere - at the east end of the backpacker ghetto on Lebuh Chulia, in the Red Garden center behind the Hotel Continental, on the seafront esplanade.
The Nazis had planned to round up all the ghetto's Jews in three days, but in the end it took them more than a month -- longer than some countries held out against Hitler's armies.
Last year, he visited the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial honoring those who perished in the Holocaust.
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And on my visit to the old Warsaw Ghetto, a woman looked me in the eye, and she wanted to make sure America stood with Israel.
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Armed with pistols, some rifles and automatic weapons, and hand-made grenades, the resistance fighters attacked the Germans and their allies when they tried to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943.
They have been around museums, including the recently opened Museum of the History of Polish Jews on the site of the former Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw.
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