Icchak Cukierman (1915-1981)
A member of the Zionist organizations He-Halutz and He-Halutz Hatzair, a resistance activist in the Warsaw Ghetto, co-founder of the Anti-Fascist Bloc and the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB), and participant in the Warsaw Uprising. He was born on December 13, 1915, in Vilnius. He attended the seven-grade Ezra religious school, affiliated with the Orthodox Zionist organization Mizrachi. In 1933, he graduated from Hebrew high school. From an early age, he was strongly influenced by socialist and Zionist thought. As a teenager, he was a member of the pioneering youth movements He-Halutz (Hebrew for […]
MGW with real estate from the Masovian government
Another important step towards the opening of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. The Masovian government and the museum management have signed a sales agreement for plot number 38/3 in Warsaw's Wola district. This means the museum now owns the site, which includes the historic buildings of the former Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital and its immediate surroundings. According to Marshal Adam Struzik, today's signing of the agreement completes the process of changing ownership of the former children's hospital site. "Thanks to […]
"Holocaust Trauma from the Perspective of a Psychotherapist's Clinical Practice" | Jonathan Britmann
We present a recording of Jonathan Britmann's lecture, "Holocaust Trauma from the Perspective of a Psychotherapist's Clinical Practice," delivered during the webinar "Around Holocaust Trauma," which took place on November 19, 2022. Jonathan Britmann, who discusses Holocaust trauma from the perspective of a psychotherapist's clinical practice, is a doctor of medical sciences, a psychotherapist, supervisor, and clinical psychology specialist. He has been associated with the Psychiatric Hospital in Tworki for 15 years, where he heads the Community Psychiatric Treatment Team and strives to […]