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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

Menachem Mendel Kohn, Oneg Shabbat treasurer

Treasurer of the Oneg Shabbat group, before the war he was a businessman. In the Warsaw Ghetto, he saved many people from typhus and death from famine. The Ringelblum Archive contains his diary and messages from people whose lives he had saved, or who at least managed to stay alive in the ghetto a bit longer thanks to his help.
’More than 160 thousand living, breathing people had been surrounded with wooden planks and barbed wire, and cut off from the world’. The closing of the Łódź Ghetto

On 8 February 1940 Johannes Schäfer, chief of the Łódź police, issued an order to establish a ‘Jewish quarter‘. The planned ghetto was supposed to be located in the most run-down, northern districts of the city – the Old Town and Bałuty. All Jews of Łódź were supposed to be resettled there until the end of April 1940.
24 April. Anniversary of Leopold Gottlieb’s death

On 24th April 1934 Leopold Gottlieb, Polish painter, draughtsman and graphic artist of Jewish descent, died in Paris. He was the younger brother of Maurycy Gottlieb, considered the first Jewish Polish painter. His most important works were portraits.
Call for Papers: Conference „The Holocaust between Global and Local Perspectives”

The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity is welcoming submissions for the 10th conference within the Genealogies of Memory series: The Holocaust between Local and Global Perspectives, which will take place in Warsaw, 25–27 November 2020. Application deadline is 31 May 2020. The Jewish Historical Institute is a partner of the event.
’The Great Synagogue Restores Memory’. Live broadcast at 8 PM

’The Great Synagogue, destroyed by Nazi Germany after the fall of the ghetto uprising, will be symbolically rebuilt for the third time. The image of the synagogue emerging from the rubble will appear on the wall of the Blue Tower, on the facade of the building, which took the place after the Great Synagogue after the war’.
A forgotten struggle. The Jewish Military Union in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Jewish Combat Organization and the Jewish Military Union carried out armed resistance against German troops. For various reasons, the role of the latter organization was subject to omission, misinterpretation or marginalization, both in Poland and in Israel; only the JCO was considered as a symbol of armed struggle. The 77th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising offers an opportunity to take a closer look at the fight of the revisionists and the fate of
An individual’s spiritual resistance. Interview with the authors of „The Archive More Important Than Life”

Writing a book about people who were the first to describe the Holocaust of European Jews was not an easy task. Read an interview with the authors of „Archiwum ważniejsze niż życie. Losy Żydów polskich w czasie II wojny światowej w dokumentach konspiracyjnej grupy Oneg Szabat” („The Fate Of Polish Jews During World War II In The Documents Of The Oneg Shabbat Clandestine Group”).
Eliasz Gutkowski, Oneg Shabbat's second secretary

Teacher, social and political activist, second secretary of the Ringelblum Archive, member of the Oneg Shabbat leadership. In the Warsaw Ghetto, he helped fellow Jews, despite difficulties with supporting his own wife and son. Co-edited accounts by defectors from the Chełmno nad Nerem and Sobibór extermination camps.
March 28th. Anniversary of Marc Chagall’s death. Find the artist’s works on the DELET website

On March 28th, 1985, Marc Chagall, the Russian-French painter, illustrator and graphic artist of Jewish origin, died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence in Provence. He was 97. Photographs of his works from the early 20th century can be viewed on the DELET website.
Feminists, writers, actresses. Women at the turn of the 19th and 20th Century

We invite you to take a journey through the stories of women of Berlin, Germany and the USA. Their biographies were marked by wars, pogroms, political upheavals and the need to emigrate. The women did not hesitate to meet the challenges they faced. They took on responsible roles, adopting individual emancipatory strategies.
Eliezer Lipe Bloch

One of Emanuel Ringelblum’s closest associates. His organizational skills were essential for the Two and a half years of war – a great historical project which recorded the life of Polish Jews under German occupation. He was collecting food and clothing for the poorest people in the Warsaw ghetto, as well as money for the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB). Having been arrested by the Germans, Bloch decided to stay with his comrades until his death, despite an opportunity to escape from the labour camp.
Szmuel Szajnkinder

Szmuel Szajnkinder was a footballer and sports journalist. In 1939, he participated in the defense of Warsaw, and later worked at the Jewish Social Self-Help Public Kitchen Central, where he met Emanuel Ringelblum. He began his work for Oneg Shabbat probably in early 1942 by donating his diary and a few personal accounts, including one from the September Campaign. Szajnkinder was killed during the Great Deportation in the summer of 1942.
Mordechaj Szwarcbard

Szwarcbard was one of the most hard-working members of Oneg Shabbat. His manuscripts appear in about 170 documents in the Archive. He left his own writings and a selection of copies of other documents, including notes by Emanuel Ringelblum.
„From the city to the ghetto”…

80th anniversary of establishing of the Łódź Ghetto.
Bernard (Berisz) Kampelmacher

A teacher and a social activist. The Ringelblum Archive contains more than a dozen sketches he wrote about the Jewish community in Grodzisk Mazowiecki and selected locations in the Sochaczew county: Podkowa Leśna, Wiskitki and Sochaczew. He was also involved in attempts to improve the critical condition of education in the Warsaw Ghetto. In early 1942, he died due to typhus infection.
Szyja Rabinowicz

Before the war, he was an owner of a roof tile factory. He donated a significant part of his income to the cause of supporting Jewish culture, such as the YIVO Institute. In the Warsaw Ghetto, he was an active contributor of Oneg Shabbat and an informal connection between Oneg Shabbat and Bund. After the death of his wife and younger daughter in 1943, he tried to save himself by buying a false passport to one of South American countries. From the Polski Hotel, he was transferred to the the Bergen Belsen transitional camp. On 11 October 1943, the Germans deported him to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was murdered immediately after arrival.
For the memory of future generations, and for the entire world. Abraham Lewin

The fate of the Jewish nation is so difficult to grasp and convey in writing – such a reflection keeps reappearing in Lewin’s „Diary, in fact becoming its main thread. Lewin writes the daily chronicle of the ghetto, documenting worsening conditions of living, famine, diseases, increasing terror, eventually – the Great Deportation and the stories of survivors, who „lead a bitter life”, with „wings of death waving above them”. He had continued his work even after his wife Luba was sent to Treblinka.
Nechemiasz (Nechemia) Tytelman

One of the closest associates of Oneg Shabbat, activist of Poale Zion-Left, co-founder of the Sztern (Star) sports club. Tytelman’s most important contribution to Oneg Shabbat was collecting the folklore of Warsaw Ghetto – jokes, anecdotes, popular street songs. He was killed in 1943. The circumstances of his death remain unknown.
1st anniversary of the death of Amos Oz

Israeli writer Amos Oz died last year, on 28 December 2018, at the age of 79. In 2018, the Swedish Academy decided not to grant the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many followers of Oz’s books had been expecting for years that he might have been the winner. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case.
1st anniversary of the death of Amos Oz

Israeli writer Amos Oz died last year, on 28 December 2018, at the age of 79. In 2018, the Swedish Academy decided not to grant the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many followers of Oz’s books had been expecting for years that he might have been the winner. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case.
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