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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

Does anyone know these sisters?
Can you recognize anyone in these photos? no. 2

In the collections of the Documentation Department there are many unidentified photographs from the post World War II period. Documentation Department is inviting all to participate in a new project. These photographs are mainly of Jewish children, who survived the war and were placed in Central Committee of Jews in Poland orphanages. They were taken in years 1945–1949. Unfortunately, we do not know their names, or anything about them, also — in most cases — we don’t know the place, where the ph
Can you recognize anyone in these photos? no. 3

In the collections of the Documentation Department there are many unidentified photographs from the post World War II period. Documentation Department is inviting all to participate in a new project. These photographs are mainly of Jewish children, who survived the war and were placed in Central Committee of Jews in Poland orphanages. They were taken in years 1945–1949.
Can you recognize anyone in these photos? no. 4

Can you recognize anyone in these photos? In the collections of the Documentation Department there are many unidentified photographs from the post World War II period. Documentation Department is inviting all to participate in a new project. These photographs are mainly of Jewish children, who survived the war and were placed in Central Committee of Jews in Poland orphanages. They were taken in years 1945–1949.
Can you recognize anyone in these photos? no. 5

In the collections of the Documentation Department there are many unidentified photographs from the post World War II period. Documentation Department is inviting all to participate in a new project. These photographs are mainly of Jewish children, who survived the war and were placed in Central Committee of Jews in Poland orphanages. They were taken in years 1945–1949.
Saving 42 Jews of the Żmudź area

Mr Marcin Andrusieczko came to our office with a history of his uncle and his grandfather. They helped a group of 42 Jews to survive the war in bunkers in „Uroczysko Haliczańskie“ forests near Żmudź and Pobołowice. Read carefully these post-war memoirs of Mr Zbysław Raczkiewicz, son of Wojciech. Please, contact us if there’s anything you could add to this story.
Do you recognize this place?

Josef Feingold was born in Warsaw, to a merchant family who lived in Kacza st. He survived the war and camps, and immigrated to Israel. In the 60s he returned to Poland — to see his family graves, and came home with these pictures.
The bridge over Chłodna

On the 26th January 1942 a wooden bridge over Chłodna Street was opened for the citizens of the Warsaw ghetto.
A poetry matinée and a winter war. A glimpse into the history of the yiddish avant-garde in Warsaw

On the 28th of January 1922 the Central Theater by Leszno Street no. 1 (a building which still stands today) held a matinée dedicated to modern Jewish poetry (Yiddish poetry) known in the history of Yiddish culture as the “Ringen” Matinée (spelled “Ryngen” at the time) since that was the name of the literary magazine which organized the whole event. The program included Perec Markisz’s lecture “The aesthetics of conflict in modern* Jewish poetry” and poetry readings of their own works by Uri Cwi Grinberg (Grynberg), Melech Rawicz and Mosze Broderzon — the founder of the first Yiddish avant-garde group in Poland the Jung Yiddish in Łódź. Furthermore the works of poets from Soviet Russia were read by well-known actors — Awrom Morewski and Zygmunt Turkow. A ticket to the event cost from 200 to 500 marks.
The day the "robinsons" of Warsaw were liberated

“‘Come out, we survived, we’re alive!’ People were digging themselves out from under the ground, rubbing at their eyes — blinded by daylight, running up to one another in disbelief. Like the day of resurrection!” This is how one of the Robinson Crusoes of Warsaw, who spent 15 weeks hiding in the ruins of the empty city, remembers the 17th of January 1945.
Machonbaum/Gurewicz

Aron Majer, born in 1907 in Warsaw, son of Chaskiel Machenbaum and Zysla born Gurewicz. When he was 16, two years after his mother’s death (she died on the 22nd of April 1921, buried at the Okopowa Cemetery in Warsaw), he went to Switzerland to the family of her sister, her aunt married name — Horowitz. He never again mentioned his family, he never told his son, who was born already in Switzerland, what forced him to leave even though he had a family in Warsaw…
Should the convicts be forbidden to enjoy beauty?

On 25th November, 1940, a few days after the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto, in the building of the Main Judaic Library in Tłomackie took place the first concert of the Jewish Symphony Orchestra. The program included two pieces by Beethoven: „Coriolan” Overture and Piano Concert Es-dur; Auber’s Overture for „The Dumb Girl of Portici”, and Grieg’s suite „Peer Gynt”. The entire profit from the concert was donated to the Jewish Welfare Society.
Judenrat through the eye of a satirist

The conservators of the JHI are currently protecting the album "Satirical drawings on the activities of the Jewish Council."
He created the memory of the nation. Emanuel Ringelblum

Emanuel Ringelblum the founder of unique in occupied Europe the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto was born on 21st of November, 1900.
Can you recognize anyone in these photos?
Salvaged
Judaika

The collection of synagogal and everyday objects of religious cult is comprised of a few hundred items: handicraft products, textiles as well as parchment Torah scrolls and illuminated books of Esther. The majority of them date back to the 19th and some even to the 18th century.
Treasures of the JHI

A gallery presenting some of the most valuable paintings in the collection of the Jewish Historical Institute.
Visitor’s path

„Ten years of work — I collected, tore and worked again. I had been preparing to exhibiting my paintings, and above all to exhibiting portraits of a Jewish child (...). I would like the memory of my paintings to survive...”
Painting and graphics

The collection of painting and graphics comprises about 8,000 items and is one of the largest collections of works of Jewish artists of the interwar period.
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