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MGW Collection: Ceija Stojka

She was ten years old when she was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp – to the Zigeunerlager, the so-called Gypsy camp, where from 1943 onwards people were brought

Mrs. Ziuta's Invisible Tenants: How Alicja and Leon Guz Snatched Their Lives from the Clutches of the Third Reich

"I thought that I was safe with my wife, that nothing bad could happen to me with her" - that's what he thought

MGW Collection: Maryan S. Maryan, Untitled (1969)

On Wednesday, June 15, 1977, Maryan S. Maryan died of a heart attack at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. The fifty-year-old artist

Roma in the Warsaw Ghetto – a short reconnaissance

Reconstructing the history of the Roma in the Warsaw Ghetto is like detective work. This group left no written records, and the accounts

Jews in the Warsaw Uprising: The Fate of Shoshana Kossower

On August 1, 1944, the Warsaw Uprising broke out. It was another uprising in the occupied capital – the first one started

"There is nothing more eloquent than numbers." Victims of the so-called Great Liquidation Action

Perpetrators of genocide often pay little attention to the number of those murdered. The ultimate act of dehumanization of victims is the complete denial of their

"Murder on Chłodna Street" – the death of Franciszek Raszeja

The SS men broke into the apartment and murdered everyone. "News are coming from Warsaw about the partial liquidation of the ghetto, from July 21st to 27.7th, people were taken away

Smoke was visible and moans were heard… The Jedwabne pogrom of July 10, 1941.

Before World War I, Jews constituted the majority of the population of Jedwabne, a town about 50 km from Białystok.

MGW Collection: Erna Rosenstein

On a dirty white background, a delicate black line outlines a hill, with three figures centrally positioned on it. A human figure.

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