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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

Ringelblum Archive

The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, the so-called Ringelblum Archive is a unique collection of documents that are one of the world’s most significant testimonies about the extermination of Polish Jewry.
Can you recognize anyone in these photos? no. 1

In the collections of the Documentation Department there are many unidentified photographs from the post World War II period. Those photos are all in the ŻIH Facebook album (link below).
Letter from Vilnius

“I would like to ask whether it is possible to identify the names of the families which are in the photographs, as well as to establish what happened to them, whether anyone survived and if they have descendents or relatives. I would be very grateful for your help.”
History of family names

Grandma’s name was Rosenberg. Am I Jewish? We hear questions like that rather often. Someone encounters a name with a Germanic sound to it and jumps to the conclusion that the name is Yiddish. Other “non-standard” Polish names are taken, due to their “exotic” nature, to be Hebrew — by individuals with no knowledge of Hebrew.
They called me their „Yiddishe papa”

„These were the happiest years of her life. She was saving shivering little beings, looking in their sad eyes, she was putting them to sleep“ – writes Jadwiga, a granddaughter of a Righteous Gentile, asking: what happened to them?
March of Remembrance 2014

On 22nd July, on the 72nd anniversary of the beginning of the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto by the Nazis, on the March of Remembrance, we will walk the streets of the annihilated ghetto, honoring the largest Jewish community of pre-war Europe.
Meeting with Samuel Willenberg

We wish to invite you to the JHI for a meeting with the former prisoner and escapee from Treblinka as well as the participant of the Warsaw Uprising.
The March of Remembrance — 22nd April

The March begins at the Umschlagplatz monument (5/7, Stawki Street)
Podpisanie historycznej umowy o współpracy

Izraelski Instytut Jad Waszem i Żydowski Instytut Historyczny zawarły umowę o współpracy.
Remarkable journey of priceless documents
Stroop’s Report in the new version

On 17th April on the website of the Instiute of National Remembrance (IPN), Jürgen Stroop’s Report was published.
Adolf Berman. In the mainstream of history

Today marks the birth anniversary of Adolf Berman, so it is the opportunity to recall what kind of person he was.
Death and blue in Wróblewski’s painting

A painting that does not leave us indifferent and is probably going to haunt us for a long time is “Mother with a killed child”.
The last conservation works

At the moment, the conservation works on the exhibits that will be presented in JHI on 17th April are coming to an end.
“The Last March” by Natan Rappaport

For many years, Rappaport’s plaster project lay in storage unavailable to the general public.
Moshe Koussevitzky. 130th anniversary of birth

Moshe Koussevitzky was born on 9th June 1889 in Smorgon in Vilnius Region.
Sobibor. The revolt against death

The gate opened and we saw what looked like a pretty village”
Jews in Płońsk

The earliest information on the Jewish settlement in Płońsk is from 1446.
About Nalewki Street talks dr Rafał Żebrowski

Nalewki was the axis of the Jewish quarter. A broad street, densely populated, even crowded, on which ran trams.
Pre-war Tłomackie: the buildings and the people

Tłomackie Square was created as a result of the division of the Leszno jurydyka with a rampart.
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