Kazimierz was the most Jewish of Polish towns.
The 8th Pardes Festival concluded in Kazimierz Dolny and Janowiec on Sunday. Encounters with Jewish Culture September 23, 2020. Kazimierz was the most Jewish of Polish towns. Jewish artists who flocked to Kuzmir contributed to this belief. Painters who frequented the town included Maurycy Trębacz, Józef Gabowicz, Abraham Neuman, Maurycy Minkowski, Szymon Kratka, Feliks Rubinlicht, Abraham Ostrzega, Józef Seidenbeutel, Leon Lewkowicz, Władysław Weintraub, Chaim […]
Seminar for teachers
In connection with the 80th anniversary of the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto in November 2021, the Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum has planned to organize – in conjunction with the Institute of National Remembrance's "History Stop" – a one-day seminar for teachers devoted to little-known aspects of life in the ghetto: religion, culture, and the presence of religious and ethnic minorities there. If the epidemiological situation allows, in March 2021 we would like to carry out the three-day seminar announced for March 2020 […]
Educational walks in the footsteps of the Warsaw Ghetto
On September 21-22, four educational walks from the series "In the Footsteps of the Warsaw Ghetto" took place. September 23, 2020, the walks for students of High School No. 161 in Warsaw, located at 19 Smocza Street, were led by Dr. Wiesława Młynarczyk, chief specialist of the Education Department at the Warsaw Ghetto University. The students walked along Smocza Street, Stawki Street, in front of the monument standing on the former Umschlagplatz, walked the Trail of Remembrance, stopping in front of the Janusz Korczak monument, the Icchak […]
Daniela Ogińska
"I was walking past the ghetto wall," says Daniela Ogińska, née Trębska, a scout and Warsaw Uprising participant, born in 1928, recalling images of hungry children from the Warsaw Ghetto who ventured outside the walls in search of food. Her account also tells the story of Home Army member Dawid Reisman and his fight in the Warsaw Uprising. We invite you to a series of film interviews, produced as part of the "Niepodległa" Multiannual Program for 2017-2022, […]