There will be war
"My mother screamed in Yiddish: 'Where is my husband?'" says Warsaw Ghetto Survivor Wacław Izaak Kornblum (born 1926), author of the book "Memoirs. My Version." The first film in the "Message" series, titled "War Will Come," collects accounts of the outbreak of World War II, the bombing of Warsaw, and the situation of Jewish citizens under German occupation in the period leading up to the establishment of the ghetto. It also features Barbara Marlow (born 1931), a Survivor who, as […]
Black, gloomy walls rising towards the sky…
We are sharing a column by Dr. Martyna Grądzka-Rejak, head of the Scientific and Research Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, published in Plus Minus magazine – the weekend edition of Rzeczpospolita – on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto borders on November 17, 2020. During World War II, almost 400 ghettos operated for longer or shorter periods in the General Government (GG) and Bezirk Bialystok, and there were over 600 of them throughout the occupied Polish territories. Most […]
"Walls" at the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital
The second part of the new online project of the MGW Exhibition Department – "WALLS / Walls" – consists of a film based on the poem of the same title by Icchak Berensztein, written and directed by Rafał Kosewski, the curator of this project on November 17, 2020. "The impulse to make the film was reading Icchak Berensztein's text, which in a unique way brings to mind the experience of confinement and loneliness," says Rafał Kosewski. "The interiors of the Children's Hospital building […]