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In Contempt of Death: All the Businesses of Symcha Binem Motyl

"Now it's war, whoever trades lives," the smuggling hymn went. He also lived by this maxim.

MGW Collection: Zuzanna Hertzberg, banners from the "Mechica" series

MGW Collection: Zuzanna Hertzberg, "Mechitza: Individual and Collective Resistance of Women during the Holocaust" (2019); "Mechitza: Fighters of the Uprisings

A Hero with a Remorseful Conscience: The Dramatic Fate of "Red Paul"

"Perhaps if we had not started this work, the remnants of Jewry would have survived and not perished from fires and bullets," he wrote a few months after the end

Sara Lipska – a total artist  

She was one of the most outstanding Polish painters, sculptors, interior designers, and clothing designers of the 20th century. She was widely called "Dunikowski's muse."

I now live mostly in a dark basement… The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the Accounts of the Civilian Population

On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began - the largest manifestation of armed resistance by the population

MGW Collection: Alfredo Jaar, "Unseen (100 Days of 1994)", 1997

November 1994. On the streets of Malmö, Sweden, advertising posters appear in light boxes, with a simple black banner on a white background.

MGW Collection: Douglas Gordon, pp. 364 (2010)

Flashing lights and overhead lines and poles scurrying away to the rhythm of the clattering wheels. When traveling by train, everyone probably

MGW Collection: Gustav Metzger, Historical Photographs: No. 1: Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 19–28, 1943 (1995/2007)

A Jew, a refugee from Nazi Germany, a Holocaust survivor, a stateless person, a pacifist, and an activist. Gustav Metzger's identity was shaped by

Mathias Bersohn. Philanthropy, Cultural Patronage, and the Social Responsibility of the Warsaw Jewish Bourgeoisie

A pioneer of research into the history of Jews and the monuments of their material culture. After his death, he was described as "a true citizen of the country, a sincere

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