and the future of the place
a debate devoted to the future commemoration of "Miła 18".
October
Accessibility - Task 2
(1885-1945)
Warsaw Ghetto Museum
Report from the debate "Understanding Memory: How to Talk About a Difficult Past"
The panel meeting "Understanding Memory: How to Talk About the Difficult Past?", organized by the Pilecki Institute and the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, became a space for reflection on the state of contemporary education about the Holocaust. The event was opened by Deputy
Historical documents saved from last year's auction in Neuss, Germany, have been donated to the MGW
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation acquired 433 historical documents that were to be auctioned off at a German auction last year. Some of them went to the Warsaw Ghetto Museum.
The Warsaw Ghetto Museum is a member of ESHEM
The Warsaw Ghetto Museum became part of the European Sites of Holocaust Memory (ESHEM).
| FENiKS
The project is possible thanks to funding from the European Funds for Infrastructure, Climate, Environment 2021-2027 (FEniKS) programme.
September 2026 at the MGW construction site
Construction is entering one of its most eagerly anticipated stages. Ahead of us are the final phase of facade work and intensive finishing work before the approaching winter.
August 2026 at the MGW construction site
Each week brings visible results of the work on the site of the future Museum. The investment is steadily reaching its final form. Here's a summary of the changes in recent weeks: Investment site – the emerging Museum
July 2026 at the MGW construction site
The former Bersohn and Bauman Hospital is gradually regaining its historic character. Careful finishing and conservation work has respectfully combined the complex's past with modern architectural solutions. Here's a summary of the most important
June 14 1940
2 October
By order of the Governor of the Warsaw District, Ludwig Fischer, a ghetto was established in the capital, forcing 250 Warsaw residents to change their place of residence within a few weeks.
16th November,
The borders ran along the following streets: Wielka, Bagno, Grzybowski Square, Rynkowa, Zimna, Elektoralna, Bankowy Square, Tłomackie, Przejazd, Nalewki, the border of the Krasiński Garden, Świętojerska, Freta, Sapieżyńska, Konwiktorska, Stawki, Dzika, Okopowa, Towarowa, Srebrna and Złota.
January 30 1941
Jews from the Pruszków Ghetto were deported to the Warsaw Ghetto. They were allowed to take only hand luggage with them. Everything left by the transported population was looted by the Germans.
8 Grudnia
The first transport to the Kulmhof camp in Chełmno nad Nerem brought Jews from surrounding ghettos. Extermination was carried out in mobile gas chambers using exhaust gas. The bodies were taken to the forest and then burned in field crematoria.
January 20 1942
A meeting was held on Großer Wannsee Street in Berlin, attended by Adolf Eichmann and Reinhard Heydrich, among others, to discuss the details of the planned genocide of the Jewish population. As the discussion continued, the Holocaust was already unfolding – through overpopulation, famine, and epidemics in the ghettos.
January 26 1942
In the Warsaw Ghetto, the Germans opened a wooden pedestrian bridge, the so-called footbridge, over the "Aryan" Chłodna Street at the intersection with Żelazna Street. It connected the so-called Large and Small Ghettos. Today, its symbolic reconstruction stands in its place.
January 27 1942
Some of the Jews imprisoned in the Tarczyn ghetto were transported to Warsaw. A month later, the remaining Jews were sent to the Warsaw Ghetto. All were murdered in the German Nazi extermination camp at Treblinka.
April 17 1942
The German authorities targeted individuals suspected of conspiratorial activity, trade unionists, and social activists in the ghetto. The repression was carried out by the gendarmerie and police, the SS, the Gestapo, and officers of the Jewish Order Service. Fifty-two people were murdered.
June 19 1942
Author of "Diary from the Warsaw Ghetto," first published in New York in 1945. She lived in the ghetto, including on Sienna Street. She was interned in Pawiak Prison along with other Jewish citizens of the United States and Great Britain. She arrived in New York with her family in 1944.
July 22 1942
The German-led liquidation operation in the Warsaw Ghetto, during which approximately 265 Jews, constituting 75 percent of the ghetto's population, were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp. Approximately 10 were murdered on the spot. The operation ended on September 21st.
July 23 1942
