"When the Warsaw Ghetto Was Created" – a radio play

As part of #MGWonline, we invite you to listen to a fictionalized broadcast produced by the Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. It explores the situation faced by one-third of Warsaw's population during World War II. In November 1940, approximately 400,000 Polish Jews were resettled behind the wall marking the ghetto's borders. In July 1942, the so-called Grossaktion began, deporting the population to the Treblinka extermination camp. On the morning of April 19, […]

77th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

This year, on April 19, commemorating the outbreak of the uprising at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes is not possible due to the spreading pandemic. The Warsaw Ghetto Museum, in cooperation with the Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland, has prepared joint events, which will exceptionally take place virtually. April 14, 2020. We present the program of this year's virtual commemorations to jointly cultivate the memory of the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto. Historical films about the Warsaw Ghetto – a series by the Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland […]