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Krystyna Skarbek
13.12.2023

Krystyna Skarbek

During the Second World War, she was Poland’s most famous ‘spy in a skirt’. A Polish aristocrat on her father’s side, Skarbek’s mother had Jewish…
January Self-defence 1943
11.01.2023

January Self-defence 1943

Perhaps, had it not been for the January Uprising, the April Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto would not have taken place. Read more about the…
Sukkot in the Warsaw Ghetto
20.09.2021

Sukkot in the Warsaw Ghetto

“In our shop, worries of another type. We have no Esrog and Lulav and will not be able to fulfil the commandment and blessing. We…