"Later they walled everything up so that Poles wouldn't see what was happening in the ghetto"
The Warsaw Ghetto Museum invites you to the fourth film in the "There Was a Wall" series. November 16th marks 80 years since the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto. The Warsaw Ghetto Museum, in cooperation with the Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and with the support of its patrons, commemorates this date. The anniversary events are accompanied by the "There Was a Wall" social campaign, under the honorary patronage of the Mayor of Warsaw. Selected by the MGW Research Department and published here, excerpts […]
Wojciech Topiński
The Topiński couple were involved in the underground resistance throughout the German occupation – Zofia helped produce false documents for Jews in hiding, while Jan worked in the Home Army's Office of Information and Propaganda. "In an environment devoid of any prejudices or stereotypes – negative or positive – a situation simply arose in which blondes had to protect brunettes from death," says their son, Wojciech Topiński (born 1948). We invite you to a series of interviews […]
A museum for future generations
We are sharing an interview conducted by Ewa Kielak-Ciemniewska, editor-in-chief of "Stolica," with Albert Stankowski, director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, published in the November issue of the monthly on November 4, 2020. Was there a need to establish a Warsaw Ghetto Museum in Warsaw, or does the POLIN Museum not exhaust the subject of the Holocaust? The ghetto, organized in Warsaw by the Germans, was the largest ghetto in Europe in terms of population and the site of one of the most serious crimes against Warsaw residents, which has not yet been […]