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Irena Krzywicka. The private life of the scandalist…

The famous scandalist of the interwar period, although born in cold Siberia, stirred up public opinion in the Second Polish Republic. She was a social

"Jews, fight!" A turning point in the history of the Jewish Combat Organization

On the frosty morning of January 18, 1943, the Germans began another deportation operation in the Warsaw Ghetto. Activists of the Jewish Organization

Celina Szymanowska – being the wife of a genius and going crazy…

She lived for only 43 years. First, in the shadow of her outstanding mother, the pianist Maria Szymanowska, and then of her brilliant husband, the poet.

Maria Szymanowska

She was one of Europe's first outstanding female composers and pianists, a fixture in the tsarist salons of Moscow and St. Petersburg. She came from a Frankist family.

The Ordeal of the "Rubble Workers." Leon Najberg and the Last Ghetto Insurgents

For several months after the fall of the uprising, Jewish survival groups operated in the Warsaw Ghetto, in shelters and ruined tenement houses.

Judyta Suchestow – what a scandal it was…

In 1937, a beautiful Jewish divorcee caused one of the biggest sexual scandals of the interwar period in Poland.

"Jews are not allowed." The story of one plaque.

The Warsaw Ghetto Museum received a gift of a metal plaque with a German inscription prohibiting Jews from entering the park. We sincerely thank you.

Janina Konarska-Słonimska: A Wife with Artistic Merit

She was beautiful and artistically talented. She loved, apparently without reciprocation, the renowned sculptor Karol Stryjeński, and had an affair with the poet Kazimierz Wierzyński,

Marta Foerder – "Miriam the Red-Haired"

A Polish Jew from a good, middle-class home, Marta Foerder (1872–1896) was the lover of a demonic writer from the Young Poland period,

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