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Marian Turski has passed away

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Call for papers for international conference "Not the End, Not the Beginning"

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The Mystery of Izrael Lejzerowicz's painting has been solved!

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The inauguration of the EHRI Polish National Node

Three years of the Oneg Szabat Program. What are we preparing for fall 2020?

The Oneg Szabat program will soon be celebrating the third anniversary of its foundation. In fall 2020 we will invite you to listen to a series of podcasts about the people who formed the Oneg Shabbat group and created the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.
“The Archive more important than life” available in English

Prepared by educators from the Jewish Historical Institute, a popularizing work devoted to the Warsaw ghetto and the activities of the Oneg Shabbat group is now avaliable in English.
Unfulfilled hopes. The Jews of Warsaw and the Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, Alexander I

In the Napoleonic Wars era, the rights of Warsaw Jews were being gradually limited. The community located their hopes for improvement in the person of Emperor Alexander I of Russia, considered a liberal monarch. Russian count Novosiltsev played a significant role in complex political games between Poles, Jews and Russians.
Symcha Trachter 1894–1942. Light and color – photo report from the opening of the temporary exhibition

On September 3, 2020 took place the opening of our newest temporary exhibition dedicated to the work of Symcha Trachter (1894–1942), a painter associated with Lublin and Kazimierz Dolny, prisoner of the Warsaw Ghetto. We invite you to visit the exhibition until October 25.
Symcha Trachter, 1894–1942. Light and Color – Temporary Exhibition

On August 27, 2020, the temporary exhibition ‘Symcha Trachter 1894–1942. Light and Color’, devoted to one of the outstanding Polish painters of the interwar period, opens at the Jewish Historical Institute.
Symcha Trachter, 1894–1942. Light and Color – Temporary Exhibition

On August 27, 2020, the temporary exhibition ‘Symcha Trachter 1894–1942. Light and Color’, devoted to one of the outstanding Polish painters of the interwar period, opens at the Jewish Historical Institute.
Kiddush Hashem. In memory of Szymon Huberband

On August 18, 1942, Szymon Huberband, a rabbi, who, according to Emanuel Ringelblum, was one of the most important collaborators of the Oneg Shabbat group, was deported to Treblinka. We present a fragment of his written accounts about saving the Torah from destruction by the Germans.
August 15, 1942: Eliasz Gutkowski sends his son to the Czerniaków farm

August 15, 1942 was the 25th day of the great deportation from the Warsaw ghetto. Eliasz Gutkowski, the second secretary of the Oneg Szabat group, decided to hide his son on a farm in the Czerniaków suburb of Warsaw. It was an exceptionally friendly place for Jews from the Warsaw ghetto. Icchak Cukierman recalls.
‘We saw ourselves already outside the gates of the inferno’. Treblinka uprising through the eyes of Jankiel Wiernik

Carpenter Jankiel Wiernik took part in the uprising in the Treblinka extermination camp on August 2, 1943. He was one of the few prisoners who managed to survive. After reaching Warsaw, he wrote down his experiences, which in 1944 were published by the Polish resistance as the brochure ‘A Year in Treblinka’.
’How comfortable this fight was!’ Marek Edelman about the Warsaw Uprising

On August 1, 1944, the Warsaw Uprising broke out. The few surviving Jewish ghetto fighters, Jews freed from German prisons or hiding after the destruction of the ghetto in occupied Warsaw, took part in the struggle. Among them was Marek Edelman.
“In Nowolipie, Smocza streets, hunting takes place at noon.” The Warsaw Ghetto one week after the start of the great deportation

July 29, 1942. A week has passed since the beginning of the great deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto. Every day 5,000-10,000 Jews are transported from the Umschlagplatz to the gas chambers in Treblinka. With the formation of the Jewish Combat Organization, an armed resistance movement slowly begins.
July 28, 1942. Establishment of the Jewish Combat Organization

78 years ago, during the Great Deportation, Zionist youth organizations in the Warsaw Ghetto established the Jewish Combat Organization. It was the so-called ‘first’ JCO, existing until September-October 1942.
“Before Our Lives End...” Parczew, 1942

A story about remembrance. This album is dedicated to the memory of the Sochaczewski family. About Czesław, Jadwiga, about grandmother Ester, Katarzyna, Maria, Stella and Regina.
June 4, 1942. Two Jewish artists shot in Krakow

78 years ago, at the corner of Dąbrówki and Janowa Wola streets in the Kraków ghetto, the Germans shot a group of elderly Jews who were being led to a transport to the Bełżec death camp. Among them were the painter Abraham Neuman and the poet Mordechaj Gebirtig, considered the last Jewish bard of Kraków. Today we remember both artists.
Research visits at the JHI from May 18, 2020

Rules for conducting research visits at the Jewish Historical Institute from May 18, 2020, in the conditions of partial opening of cultural institutions in Poland during the coronavirus pandemic.
Exhibitions in JHI reopened from June 1, 2020

As part of the gradual opening of cultural institutions to the public in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, some of the Jewish Historical Institute exhibitions will be opened for guests from June 1. Please learn about special rules of visiting our exhibitions.
The third volume of the Ringelblum Archive is available in English

The English translation of the 3rd volume of the Ringelblum Archive – Oyneg Shabes. People and Works, edited by Aleksandra Bańkowska and Tadeusz Epsztein – is now available in our bookstore. The translation of all volumes of the full edition of the Archive is one of the elements of the Oneg Szabat Program.
The closure of the Warsaw Ghetto

Professor Paweł Śpiewak, director of the Jewish Historical Institute, writes about the 80th anniversary of the closure of the Warsaw Ghetto. With this article, we announce our commemorations of the 1940–1943 events, moving from death to life.
May 16, 1943. Destruction of the Great Synagogue of Warsaw

The Great Synagogue in Warsaw existed for a very short time, less than 65 years. Its ceremonial opening took place on September 26, 1878. Its blowing up by SS troops, which suppressed the ghetto uprising, was meant to symbolize the end of Jewish Warsaw.
Events at the Jewish Historical Institute in 2020

’May their souls be bound in the bundle of life’. We present events at the Jewish Historical Institute in 2020, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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