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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

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68th anniversary of discovering the second part of the Ringelblum Archive

On 1 December 1950, in the area of the Muranów C housing estate, at 68 Nowolipki street, diggers and bulldozers of the State Workers’ Estates Construction Enterprise were preparing the area for a new building. Suddenly, they came across two milk cans, which contained a treasure hidden in February 1943 – the second part of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Who will write our history?

Roberta Grossman’s film premiered on 21 July at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, where it received the Audience Award. This year, it will be screened in Poland – on 12 November, it will open the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. The Jewish Historical Institute is one of the film’s partners.
The movie „Who will write our history” will open the 16th Warsaw Jewish Film Festiwal

The script for the film directed by Roberta Grossman was based on a book by American historian Samuel D. Kassow, dedicated to the Oneg Shabbat group and the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Mały Przegląd / Little Review

On 9 October 1926, the first issue of „Mały Przegląd” (Little Review) was published – the only periodical whose contributors were children. The editor was Janusz Korczak.
We must rescue the Ringelblum Archive!

„Remember! A national treasure is buried in the ruins. The Ringelblum Archive is there. Even if the ruins reach five storeys high, we must find the Archive”, called Rachela Auerbach during the commemoration of the third anniversary of the Ghetto Uprising. Thanks to the determination of people aware of the significance of documents hidden in the Borochov school, the first part of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto was unearthed on 18 September 1946. Seventy one years later, on 18 Septem
A man escaped from Treblinka... The story of Jakub Krzepicki

On 13 September 1942, Abraham (Jakub) Krzepicki escaped from the Treblinka II extermination camp. His account was written down by Rachela Auerbach and hidden in the second part of the Ringelblum Archive. It begins with words: „The phenomenon of Treblinka is difficult to describe, but also even to understand. It’s hard even to begin. I feel a lump in my throat...”
77th anniversary of Józef Kapłan’s death

Józef Kapłan was a Hashomer Hatzair activist. He was invited to join the Oneg Shabbat by Ringelblum himself in 1942. Kapłan was an important liaison with underground organizations; however, no texts signed by him have been preserved in the Archive. On September 3, 1942, Kapłan was arrested and imprisoned at the Pawiak. He was executed in the ghetto, inside the gate of a house on Dzielna Street, on September 11.
Szymon Huberband, rabbi and historian

On August 18, 1942, Huberband and his second wife were taken to the Umschlagplatz, whence he was sent to the Treblinka extermination camp. Menachem Mendel Kohn remembered that only two hours earlier he had talked to him about his future texts for the Oneg Shabbat.
75th anniversary of revolt in the Treblinka II death camp

The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute would like to invite you to the official commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the prisoners’ revolt in the Treblinka II extermination camp. The events will be attended by honorary guest — Ada Krystyna Willenberg, Samuel Willenberg’s widow, with her family.
The Delet App is available

Discover the collections of the Jewish Historical Institute and browse them on your mobile device (Android only). We cordially invite you to download the Delet App, which we have prepared together with Mysza Software.
22 July March of Remembrance

This year, the march is dedicated to the memory of Shmuel Zygielbojm, a Bund activist, who made efforts throughout these months to alert the Western public opinion about mass extermination of Jews in occupied Poland. After many months of struggle against the West’s indifference, in act of solidarity with the insurgents of the Warsaw Ghetto, he committed suicide. In the March of Remembrance, we want to bring back the memory about him.
110th anniversary of Henryka Łazowertówna’s birth

Poet, writer and translator. After the outbreak World War II, she became involved in social work, including on behalf of the charity organization CENTOS and the Jewish Social Self-Help, for which she prepared publicity materials. For the Oneg Shabbat, she wrote the history of the ghetto’s poorest and most precarious inhabitants, a story of individual Jewish families’ struggle to survive. Murdered in Treblinka during the Great Deportation. Not wanting to leave her mother, she refused to leave the Umschlagplatz when offered the opportunity.
75. anniversary of blowing up the Great Synagogue in Warsaw

On 16th May, 1943 not only the most impressive synagogue in Warsaw but also the entire Jewish district ceased to exist. Destruction of the synagogue was a symbolic act of the triumph over the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which had been ongoing since 19th April 1943. The person responsible for the bloody suppression of the uprising was Jürgen Stroop. In his report he wrote down a characteristic sentence, “Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr!”
The Easter Pogrom, 1940

The Easter pogrom should be considered as a culmination of anti-Semitic violence which had been increasing on the streets of Warsaw since the beginning of the war, with its peak in the early spring of 1940. The pogrom was certainly strongly inspired by the Germans; as researcher Tomasz Szarota assumes, it was provoked deliberately as a justification for building a ghetto in Warsaw. The construction of the ghetto walls began only several days after the pogrom.
Posthumous Award for Ethical Leadership for Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oneg Shabbat Group!

The 2018 Awards for Ethical Leadership was announced by the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) – a New York non-profit corporation. The creators of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto were honored for their „courage and prescience. They were the true ethical documentarians of their time, risking their lives to obtain contemporaneous reports as accurate and irrefutable proof of catastrophic historical events”.
The Warsaw Jews and football before the war

Beginnings of football in Warsaw and the first Jewish club.
The first modern Jewish school in Warsaw

91 years ago, on 19th February 1928, the Institute for Judaic Studies was opened in Warsaw. It was “the first Jewish school in Europe with a scientific curriculum including not only theological subjects but also secular Judaic studies.”
Lachert, the Law Courts on Leszno and Saska Kępa

When we think of Bohdan Lachert we immediately think „Muranów”. But during the occupation his house on Saska Kępa was important Underground hub.
Opinion survey

Opinion survey about the permanent and the temporary exhibition at the JHI.
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