09.11.2020
Holocaust remembrance
The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity conference, the tenth such conference organised as part of The Genealogies of Memory series, was inaugurated on 4 November and…
Current events
06.11.2020
In teaching about the Holocaust, it is very important to understand how memory works
A two-day national scientific conference titled „Formy zniewolenia w okresie II wojny światowej na okupowanych przez Niemców ziemiach polskich (1939-1945): obozy, getta i więzienia” [“The…
03.11.2020
"There Was a Wall". 80th anniversary of the closure of the Warsaw Ghetto
On 16 November it will be 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto borders had been closed. The Warsaw Ghetto Museum in cooperation with the Social…
27.10.2020
Symcha Trachter – freshness, expression and „dancing” buildings
„Symcha Trachter 1894 – 1942. Light and Colour” is an exhibition dedicated to the artist that can be seen at the Jewish Historical Institute until…
20.10.2020
WGM - a Tender
The Warsaw Ghetto Museum has announced a tender for: THE DEVELOPMENT OF DESIGN DOCUMENTATION FOR THE INVESTMENT CALLED “THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WARSAW GHETTO MUSEUM”…
05.10.2020
Warsaw Ghetto Museum at the 18th Meetings with Jewish Culture in Busko-Zdrój
During the two-days-long 18th Meetings with Jewish Culture in Busko-Zdrój, held on 11 and 12 September, the Warsaw Ghetto Museum was represented by Halina Postek,…
01.10.2020
Many people are still not aware that there was a ghetto here...
In the 19th century, Jews constituted over 89 per cent of Grodzisk Mazowiecki inhabitants. To remind the Jewish history of the city, the New Culture…
30.09.2020
An educational stroll in the footsteps of the Warsaw Ghetto
On 21-22 September four educational strolls under the series “In the footsteps of the Warsaw Ghetto” took place 23 September 2020
24.09.2020
Kazimierz used to be the most Jewish town in Poland
Sunday was the final day of the 8th Pardes Festival – Meetings with Jewish Culture, which took place in Kazimierz Dolny and Janowiec 23 September…
24.09.2020
Jewish cemeteries in Poland have remained in the long shadow of the Holocaust
About the destruction of Jewish cemeteries during World War II, after the years of 1945 and 1989, what they mean to contemporary Poles and why…
24.09.2020
Many second circulation authors called for some difficult topics to be tackled
About taking up the subject of the Holocaust in the underground publications during the years of the Polish People’s Republic, how the topic of shmaltsovniks…