Another edition of the seminar for teachers and educators under the “Inspiring Culture” program of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has ended.

The history of the Jewish Military Union (Żydowski Związek Wojskowy – ŻZW) – a right-wing paramilitary organization, mostly composed of Zionist revisionists – and its participation in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising remains largely undiscovered. While leaders such as Paweł Frenkel, Leon Rodal and Dawid Wdowiński are already relatively well known (at least in the academic community), many members of the top management remain anonymous figures, worthy of a closer look. One of them is Dr. Michał Strykowski from Konin. In this text, I mainly focus on the pre-war period of his short, barely forty-year life.

The Museum of the Jewish Historical Institute collection has been enriched by a sketch for the painting “Ghetto with an Angel” by Isaak Celnikier from 1957. This valuable acquisition was donated to the Institute by the artist's family after the exhibition “»Minor Remnants from Solna Street«. Isaac Celnikier and the Holocaust Experience” curated by Zuzanna Benesz-Goldfinger.

In the crowded, dirty, drab, and colorless streets of the ghetto, one would occasionally see groups of girls in pink dresses, white aprons with shoulder straps, and white caps on their heads. They looked like pink flower petals, perhaps alpine violets, and with their brightness, cleanliness, and pastel hues, they gave the impression of otherworldly beings, apparitions that had arrived from who knows where. These girls were students of the Nursing School. ( Alina Margolis-Edelman, „Ala z »Elementarza«”, London 1994)

The temporary exhibition "Capturing the Ghetto. Artistic Portrayals of Everyday Life in the Łódź Ghetto" accompanies the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Łódź ghetto.

When the Warsaw Uprising broke out on 1st August 1944, there were Jews among the fighters. The independent ŻOB unit, part of the People’s Army (AL) was the only strictly Jewish combat formation in the insurgent ranks.

During a ceremony organized on August 2 together with the Treblinka Museum. The Nazi German Extermination and Forced Labour Camp (1941–1944), we honoured the victims of the Treblinka II extermination camp on the 81st anniversary of the revolt of its prisoners.

On July 22, the March of Remembrance passed through the streets of Warsaw for the thirteenth time. We honoured the victims of the mass extermination of the Warsaw Ghetto on the 82nd anniversary of the so-called Grossaktion. From July 22 to September 21, 1942, the Germans deported approximately 300,000 Warsaw Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp. We dedicated this year’s March to the rabbis of the Warsaw Ghetto.