80th anniversary of the death of Paweł Frenkel
On June 19th, the 80th anniversary of the death of Paweł Frenkel, commander of the Jewish Military Union, we met to commemorate the tragic events of June 1943. The Jewish Military Union was an underground Jewish armed organization that fought during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It was likely founded in the autumn of 1942 at the initiative of pre-war activists of the Jewish national movement. The Jewish Military Union included Jewish officers and non-commissioned officers of the Polish Army, as well as members of the Jewish intelligentsia. Until April […]
Photo report | A walk through the so-called large ghetto and a visit to the excavations at the former Miła 18 Street
On Sunday, June 18th, Masza Makarova from the WGM Education Department led a walking tour of the northern part of the former Warsaw Ghetto, the largest ghetto in occupied Europe during World War II. Despite the rainy weather, a group of 20 people gathered to hear the history of the Warsaw Ghetto, learn about the fate of those imprisoned there, such as the poet Władysław Szlengel, and see pre-war relics, silent witnesses to history. There was […]