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The Warsaw Ghetto Museum requests your support for the initiative to name the intersection of Gen. W. Andersa and Stawki Streets in Warsaw after the Jewish Military Union. The Warsaw Ghetto Museum wishes to revive the memory of the Jewish Military Union, an organization that fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which broke out on April 19, 1943. The Jewish Military Union has not yet been commemorated in the capital, despite being the second largest organization whose members fought in the Uprising […]
Photo report | Visit of a group of IPN competition winners from Białystok
On October 14, Masza Makarova from the Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum guided a group of winners of a school competition organized by the Białystok branch of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). The group saw the most important sites in the former ghetto: fragments of the Jewish district walls, the former Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital, the Nursing School building, the Nożyk Synagogue, and tenement houses on Próżna Street. They also visited the Umschlagplatz and […]
Black Market '41
"Currency trading is a blind game, a gambling game in which some people win great riches, while others break their backs," wrote Eliasz Gutkowski, secretary of Oneg Shabbat and a close associate of Emanuel Ringelblum. The account goes on to discuss careers and a penchant for great risk: "The newly arrived currency merchant, ruined, transforms into a broker who curses the day and moment when he became acquainted with Pavia Street. But to the stock market magnate […]