Photo report | Delegation from Sweden visiting MGW
On November 4, the Warsaw Ghetto Museum had the honor of hosting a delegation from Sweden. The guests visited the excavation site at 2 Miła Street (formerly 18 Miła Street) and the former Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital—the future headquarters of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. The delegation included Joanna Hofman, Polish Ambassador to Sweden; Katherine Hauptman, Director of the Swedish Holocaust Museum; Willy Silberstein, journalist and chairman of the Swedish Committee against Antisemitism; and co-founder of the Hospital Museum […]
US Ambassador Visits Excavations
On November 2, 2022, U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzeziński was a guest at the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. The Ambassador was accompanied by Emily Martinez Roca, Secretary for Human Rights, and Jeanne Briganti, Secretary for Cultural Affairs from the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw. The guests visited the excavation site at 2 Miła Street (formerly 18 Miła Street) and the Bersohn and Bauman Hospital at 60 Sienna Street/51 Śliska Street—the eventual home of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. […]
Janina Konarska-Słonimska: A Wife with Artistic Merit
She was beautiful and artistically gifted. She loved, supposedly without reciprocation, the renowned sculptor Karol Stryjeński, had an affair with the poet Kazimierz Wierzyński, and secretly married the writer Antoni Słonimski… On Monday, March 12, 1934, early in the morning at the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw, the renowned Polish graphic artist Janina Konarska married the renowned writer Antoni Słonimski. We don't know if the families of both brides were present at the ceremony. Certainly, no friends from artistic Warsaw were present. Right […]