In 1940, Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, sealing in its 400, 000 inhabitants.
Born March 8, 1924 in a Jewish ghetto in eastern Poland, Georges Charpak was naturalized French in 1946.
He threatened German commanders with postwar prosecution if they went through with plans to blow up the Jewish ghetto.
In November 1765, a respected doctor from a good Venetian family died in the Campo Santi Apostoli, near the Jewish ghetto in Venice.
The first Americans in the family, Nicholas and Annie Pritzker, arrived in Chicago from a Jewish ghetto near Kiev in 1881.
Napoleon, the liberator, threw open the gates of the city's Jewish ghetto, but in other respects he behaved like a pig.
Legend has it that he even intervened personally to halt a planned Nazi attack on a Jewish ghetto, threatening an SS general.
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.
Kosice - called Kassa at the time - was the site of the first Jewish ghetto established on Hungarian territory, following the German occupation of the country in 1944.
"The Pianist" mirrors some of the French-born, Polish Jewish director's real life when he escaped from Krakow's Jewish ghetto as a child and lived off the charity of strangers until reuniting with his father years later.
Nazis then began deporting Jews to concentration camps -- sometimes with the help of Jewish collaborators in the ghetto -- Edelman wrote.
The Warsaw Ghetto contained three churches for the Christians consigned to the ghetto for their Jewish origins.
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.
The article is accompanied by a famous image of a Jewish child being searched in the Warsaw ghetto.
Jewish refugees were later herded into Hongkou ghetto in the city's northeast, where food was scarce and disease rampant.
Edelman was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, "the largest, symbolically most important Jewish uprising" against the Nazis during World War II, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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