Children died in the street
"They were lying in rags next to a bowl where people were supposed to put pennies, but they didn't put anything in," recalls Wacław Izaak Kornblum (born 1926), author of the book "Memories. My Version." The fourth film in the "Message" series, titled "Children Died on the Street," focuses on the most tragic aspects of life in the Warsaw Ghetto: pervasive poverty, hunger, and the typhus pandemic. Also speaking: Barbara Marlow (born 1931) – Survivor, […]
“Here he knelt who did not have to, on behalf of those who did not want to kneel” – Willy Brandt in Warsaw, December 7, 1970.
Fifty years ago, then-German Chancellor Willy Brandt came to Poland to sign a treaty normalizing mutual relations with our country. Professor Grzegorz Berendt, historian and deputy director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, writes about this visit and its most famous event on December 7, 2020. The impact of a single poem can sometimes be more powerful than the content of a volume of scholarly studies on the same topic. It's similar with gestures that are more memorable, […]