“Later, this fence was replaced with a wall with glass on top.”
The Warsaw Ghetto Museum invites you to the sixth film in the series "There Was a Wall." 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 […]
IHRA – Holocaust Education
The Ministry of National Education was one of the first in the world to translate the text of the IHRA Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust – following consultation with the Advisory Council on Holocaust Education at the Ministry of National Education – and made the official translation available to the IHRA Office, which posted it on its website on November 6th. The "Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust" reflect the expertise of delegates from over 30 member countries. Their intention was to provide policymakers, practitioners […]
Holocaust Memory
The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity conference, the tenth in the Genealogies of Memory series, opened on November 4 and will run until November 26. The main theme of this edition is "The Holocaust between Global and Local Perspectives." One of the sessions is moderated by Dr. Hanna Węgrzynek, Deputy Director for Research and Exhibitions at the MGW. November 6, 2020. The event, organized by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, is dedicated to current research on Holocaust memory. Among the issues discussed by conference participants are […]