And there were more and more people
"Sometimes I wonder how I could have led a normal life after all this," confesses Barbara Marlow (born 1931), a survivor who participated in the Warsaw Uprising as a Girl Scout. The third episode of the "Message" series, titled "And There Were More and More People," is devoted to everyday life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Survivor Wacław Izaak Kornblum (born 1926), author of the book "Memoirs. My Version," and Survivor […]
The religiosity of Warsaw Jews after the outbreak of the war
We are sharing a column by Rabbi David Berman from the Scientific and Research Department of the Warsaw Ghetto University, published in the November issue of the monthly Słowo Żydowskie on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto borders on December 1, 2020. The fact that Jews described as "religious" or "traditional," in the broad sense of these words, were not a group cut off from the rest of the Warsaw Jewish community, but rather an essential, integral part of it, is often forgotten or downplayed. Daily prayer, […]