On November 16, 1940, the Germans established a ghetto in Warsaw
We are sharing a column by Dr. Hanna Węgrzynek, deputy director for research and exhibitions at 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 18. In his diary, dated March 30, 1940, Adam Czerniaków, chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat (the Jewish Council established by the Germans in early October 1939), wrote: "Since this morning, rumors about the ghetto... I delivered... our letter regarding [...]
Hanna Krall: "Keeping Up with God"
"Marek Edelman tells Hanna Krall about what happened in the ghetto, how people lived there, the Grossaktion – the deportation of Jews to Treblinka in 1942 – the Umschlagplatz, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising," says Dr. Wiesława Młynarczyk, chief specialist in the Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum and the originator of the film series "Ghetto in Literature." The first part of the project was devoted to Hanna Krall's reportage "Zdążyć przed Panem Boga" (To Catch God) (1977). It is […]