Izabela Czajka Stachowicz (1893-1969)
A writer, chronicler of life in interwar Warsaw, muse to artists, and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. Bella Szwarc, her real name, was probably born on November 5, 1898, in Sosnowiec. She came from a wealthy Jewish home. "My father was very wise, very unstable, and walked his own path. I knew he loved me above all else; he was my rock, my armor, and my armor." As a young girl, along with the entire […]
The Warsaw Ghetto: Places and People – a meeting promoting MGW publications
The Warsaw Ghetto Museum, as part of the Singer Festival and in cooperation with the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute, invites you on Friday, August 27th at 6:00 PM to a meeting entitled "Warsaw Ghetto: Places and People," devoted to the memoirs of Holocaust Survivors published by the Museum. The first publication presented will be the history of the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital, edited by Dr. Hanna Węgrzynek and Prof. Konrad Zieliński. "Bersohn and Bauman Hospital in Warsaw" presents the history of this important hospital in the history of Warsaw Jews and the Warsaw […]