"Bloody Friday", April 17/18, 1942
"In the early spring of 1942, the Warsaw Ghetto could be perceived by some as an island (of relative safety) surrounded by a turbulent sea (war unrest in Eastern Europe). In proportion to the shrinking and subsequent disappearance of Jewish communities in the General Government, the Jewish population in the ghetto grew. Its stability, or even "development," was evidenced by subsequent transports of Jews from centers around Warsaw, Western Europe, and Germany." We invite you to read Dr. […]
A team of world-renowned geophysicists comes to Warsaw at the invitation of the Water Management Centre
Geophysicists from the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at Hartford University in Connecticut will search for traces of the past at the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital. Archaeologists will conduct research on July 19th at the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital at 60 Sienna Street, where the Warsaw Ghetto Museum plans to open a permanent exhibition in 2023. The team leader—who will not be traveling to Poland, however—is Prof. Richard Freund, an archaeologist, archaeologist, and professor […]
The seventy-eighth anniversary of the Jedwabne pogrom
The Warsaw Ghetto Museum paid tribute to the memory of the Jews murdered in Jedwabne. A wreath was laid at the monument commemorating the massacre. Its ribbon features a fragment of the Jewish prayer: "Blessed be the True Judge." You can read about the Jedwabne pogrom on the Virtual Shtetl website: https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/miejscowosci/j/789-jedwabne/116-miejsca-martyrologii/46519-pogrom-w-jedwabnem-10071941 Download the article