"Freedom! Give us back our freedom..."
We are sharing a column by Dr. Martyna Grądzka-Rejak, 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. December 2, 2020 On October 2, 1940, just before Rosh Hashanah, Ludwig Fischer, governor of the Warsaw district, issued an order establishing the Jewish residential district, or Jewish district. A map of the streets that were to be included in the ghetto boundaries was attached to the document. Less than two […]
Czesław Miłosz: "Campo di Fiori"
"Miłosz (…) wanted to explore the human condition, to examine the attitudes of Poles, how Poles viewed the burning ghetto," says Dr. Wiesława Młynarczyk, chief specialist in the Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum and originator of the film series "Ghetto in Literature." The third part, devoted to Czesław Miłosz's poem "Campo di Fiori" (1943), will focus on the attitude of the Polish population toward the Holocaust as […]