History column

“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…

With the Jewish High Holidays approaching, it is perhaps appropriate to reflect on the challenges and responses of Jews who were confined to the Warsaw…

24 August 1940 Adam Czerniaków, chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat, visited a halutz (pioneer) farm operating in Grochów. The boys and girls working on the…

“I am helpless, my heart is breaking with grief and pity, I cannot bear it any longer” (Adam Czerniaków, Journal)

I will do anything to save those who can still be saved and avenge those who have been so bitterly humiliated in the final moments…

Piano music aficionados know him as a brilliant musician performing repertoire ranging from Bach to contemporary composers. On top of that, he used to play…

In May 2021, the Commission for Municipal Naming of the Warsaw City Council (Komisja do spraw Nazewnictwa Miejskiego Rady m.st. Warszawy) decided to give one…

On the night of 18-19 April 1943, on Passover eve, the Warsaw Ghetto was surrounded by German military police and Blue Police. The next morning,…

“Jews are now very pious. They observe all the ritual laws: they are stabbed and punched with holes like matzas, have as much bread as…

Among those who were involved in helping Jews during World War II were also diplomats, employees of Polish missions in various European countries. Polish diplomats…

An important element of the anti-Semitic policy of the German occupiers was the harassment during the Jewish holidays, calculated to ridicule the centuries-old tradition and…