'The Message'

Memories of Polish Jews are often marked by economics, in connection with their professions or the common stereotype of people focused on money. “Crowds, bustle,…

Pre-war Warsaw was multicultural and multi-religious, which was often a source of conflicts in the adult world. But how did the children look at it?…

“I have not been to the synagogue in my life. We didn’t celebrate holidays at all” – says the Survivor Marian Kalwary (born 1930) in…

“Take the child on your shoulders, you will see how the Jews are burning” – such comments were heard by ateenage scout from the Grey…

‘Those who voluntarily appear at the Umschlagplatz will get bread and marmalade’, says the Survivor Larissa Cain nee Sztorchan (born 1932). The sixth episode of…

“They were lying in rags near a bowl, where people were supposed to throw some pennies, but they did not throw anything there” – recalls…

“Sometimes I wonder how I could lead a normal life after all this” – confesses Barbara Marlow (born in 1931), the Survivor who participated in…

“I was not allowed to get to the window in the evening, because there were patrols and at night there was always a shooting” –…

“My mother shouted in Yiddish: where is my husband?” – says Wacław Izaak Kornblum (born 1926), a Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, author of the…