History column

On 19 April 1943, an uprising began in the Warsaw Ghetto – the largest armed resistance by the Jewish people during World War II and…

A major activist in the Polish Socialist Party, charismatic, energetic, skilled opponent of both fascism and communism, Lidia Ciolkoszowa was born as Lidia Kahan on…

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…

She was one of the most important figures in the Polish post-war émigré community. Together with her husband Zygmunt Hertz and Jerzy Giedroyc, she ran…

The younger – and only – sister of Julian Tuwim, one of Polish best-known poets. She gained universal acclaim as an excellent translator of ‘Winnie…

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…

In January 1943, in connection with the plans of the Germans to deport a group of Jews considered no longer fit for work to the…

One of the managers of the war-time Shultz factory, located in the ghetto area at Nowolipie 44-46, was the former owner Avraham Hendel (1894-1973). He…

‘Even while the war was still in progress, the story of the Warsaw ghetto uprising became a legend that was passed on, with awe and…

Yitzhak Suknik soon became an invaluable member of the Jewish Fighting Organisation, the ZOB.

This is the story of Yitzhak Suknik who fought and died in the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of more than six hundred ghettos set up…