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Discover underground Muranów

Starting June 24, we’re launching the summer season at the archaeological site of the former Miła 18! more

Marysia Ajzensztadt

A singer and pianist – “The Nightingale of the Ghetto” more

‘It feels like a dream’ | Conversation with Ewa Heller-Ekblad

Watch an exceptional conversation with Ewa Heller-Ekblad, granddaughter of Anna Braude-Heller, conducted during her visit to the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital more

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You can now support Warsaw Ghetto Museum through donations. more

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Allan Hall – Holocaust survivor, witness to history, and author of moving memoirs at the WGM

On July 3, 2025, we had the great honor of welcoming Allan Hall to the Warsaw Ghetto Museum — a Holocaust Survivor, eyewitness to history, and author of the moving memoir Hiding in Plain Sight: Holocaust Survivor Allan Hall’s Memoir, As told to Bobbi Kaufman (published 2017).

Guests from the Science Centre Hevelianum at the MGW construction site

Last Thursday, July 3, 2025, guests from Gdańsk’s Hevelianum Science Centre visited the construction site of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum.

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas exhibition in Norway

On 28 June, the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Høvikodden, Norway, opened the exhibition ‘Alternative History’, which features one of the works from the MGW collection – ‘May’ by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas.

Columns

The WGM's columnists are historians, anthropologists, sociologists, writers and enthusiasts of Polish Jews' culture and history.

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Agony in an ‘exotic’ hell: Greek Jews in KL Warschau

Greek Jews were sent to KL Warschau straight from KL Auschwitz, where they had lost their loved ones, often entire families. This was another ring of an ‘exotic’ hell for them. They worked in the bitter cold, amid the eerie ruins of the ghetto, under the supervision of SS sadists.

Armament of the Insurgents in the Ghetto

In the spring of 1942, as news of further crimes against Jews reached the Warsaw ghetto, young underground activists began to consider forming an armed organisation to fight the Germans.

"The ashes from the ruins rose high and far.” – Liberation of Auschwitz

27 January 27 1945, is a symbolic date for the former prisoners of the Auschwitz camp complex. In the afternoon, soldiers of the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front opened the gates of the camp, which had been abandoned by the Germans.

People of the Ghetto

We present the history of the Warsaw ghetto through the prism of individual human lives.

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Marysia Ajzensztadt (1921-1942)

A singer and pianist - “The Nightingale of the Ghetto”

Lejb “Lutek” Rotblat (1918–1943)

Activist in Ha-Noar Ha-Tzioni and Akiba, member of the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB), an active participant in the Jewish resistance movement and a hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Rachel Zilberberg “Sarenka” (1920–1943)

Activist of Ha-Shomer Ha-Tzair, member of the Jewish resistance, fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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Amichai Chikli about archaeological excavations at the former Miła 18

I am moved by what I saw. I think this is one of the most important testimonies of the Holocaust and the most important testimonial…

Judy Batalion about women resistance in Hitler's ghettos

We invite you to listen to the speech of Judy Batalion – Canadian writer, author of the bestseller “The Light of Days: The Untold Story…

The Warsaw Ghetto History | Educational Documentary

We are happy to present you the educational documentary prepared by WGM and the FixaFilm studio. The film is available in Polish, English and Ukrainian…

Warsaw ghetto

See the map in full screen

The Collection Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum prepares maps showing the borders of the ghetto and changes to them from January 1941 to August 1942 as well as the borders of the remnant ghetto.

Our museum prepares maps to show the borders of the Warsaw Ghetto from January 1941 to August 1942. The subsequent versions of maps will also show the remnant ghetto from September 1942 to April 1943, including the so-called shops ("Schuppen" in German – German production plants in which Jews were forced to work), the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April and May 1943, and the remnant ghetto ruins in the second half of 1943 and the first half of 1944. In addition, our maps will show the typhus danger zone in the spring of 1940 and German plans for the borders of the Jewish district in Warsaw published in Nowy Kurier Warszawski and Gazeta Żydowska newspapers between April and October 1940.