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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

The book «Każdy pyta, co z nami będzie» by Dr. Maria Ferenc received an honorable mention in The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research 2022

We are happy to announce that the book "«Każdy pyta, co z nami będzie». Mieszkańcy getta warszawskiego wobec wiadomości o wojnie i Zagładzie” by Dr. Maria Ferenc from the JHI Research Department received an honorable mention from the jury Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research 2022 . The work was published by the JHI Publishing House.
Free admission to the temporary exhibition in January

In January, admission to the temporary exhibition "Shoulder to shoulder? Jewish involvement in Poland's aspirations for independence 1794-1918" is free of charge. We invite you to visit us!
Happy Hanukkah!

On the 25th of the month of Kislev, this year on December 18 in the Gregorian calendar, Hanukkah begins. We wish you all a merry celebration!
Free admission to exhibitions from 27 to 30 December

From 27 to 30 December, admission to the Jewish Historical Institute is free of charge. We invite you to visit us!
Archival Warsaw Ghetto film at the JHI permanent exhibition

Our permanent exhibition "What we’ve been unable to shout out to the world" now features a new multimedia stand with an archival Warsaw Ghetto film by by Alfons Ziółkowski!
“A passive witness becomes an accomplice”. Anniversary of Marek Edelman’s death

Today marks 13 years since the death of Marek Edelman, one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, participant in the Warsaw Uprising, cardiologist, and tireless eulogist of life.
Abandoned by mom? JHI Genealogy asks for help

December 1, 1934, Warsaw, Summer Theater in the Saski (Saxon) Garden. Black baby stroller without guardians. In it, a child, a girl, about 1 month old. Dark hair, and blue eyes, she was wearing a white dress, a white diaper wrapped in a pink blanket, and a green checkered scarf.
September 1939: ‘Something broke in the entire world’

On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. We present fragments of reports of Jewish soldiers of the Polish Army from the first days of the defensive war, preserved in the Ringelblum Archive.
Shoulder to shoulder? Jewish involvement in Poland's aspirations for independence 1794-1918

Numerous circumstances caused few Jews, usually assimilated and attached to Polish identity, took up arms in the Polish uprisings. We try to answer several questions: which processes led to the Jewish involvement in the fight for bringing Poland back on the map of Europe, and which discouraged them from the patriotic outburst? We will tell the story of the Jewish unification with the Polish majority, of the orthodox Jews who remained committed to the traditional Judaism and of the Polish prejudice.
Take part in the conference: 80 Years after "Aktion Reinhardt" (1942-1943): Social Responses and Commemoration

The German Nazi Operation Reinhardt led to the extermination of Polish Jews in 1942-1943. We invite you to a scientific conference devoted to these events.
Nine exiles. Shoulder to shoulder

An amazing photograph taken near Minsk in the beginning of 1862.
Does anyone know the Chamaides family from Lviv? JHI Genealogy asks for help

Our correspondent found documents of the Chamaides family from Lviv. Does anyone know this family?
"He didn't want to leave the kids for even a minute." 80 years ago, Janusz Korczak went to the Umschlagplatz

80 years ago, on August 5, 1942, Janusz Korczak went with the children from the Orphanage at 16 Sienna Street to the Umschlagplatz. Stefania Wilczyńska, a long-time collaborator, walked with him. Two weeks had passed since the Germans began the great deportation from the Warsaw ghetto.
"We have laid this cornerstone." Report from the 79th anniversary of the revolt of Treblinka II death camp prisoners

On August 2, 2022, at the museum of the German Nazi extermination camp Treblinka II, we paid tribute to the people murdered in this place and to the participants of the prisoners' revolt of 1943. The ceremony, co-organized by the Jewish Historical Institute, was attended by Ada Willenberg, widow of Samuel Willenberg, who died in 2016 as the last participant of the Treblinka uprising. Present were representatives of state and local authorities, parliament, diplomatic corps, institutions, associations, the Jewish community, the Righteous among the Nations.
The Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award Announced For 2022

On December 8, Anna Landau-Czajka, a sociologist and historian, professor at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, will receive from the 2022 Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award!
Visit the JHI permanent exhibition "What we’ve been unable to shout out to the world" with your Explainit personal guide

Use the Explainit app while visiting the permanent exhibition "What we’ve been unable to shout out to the world" at the Jewish Historical Institute. The exhibition is dedicated to the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto and its creators from the secret organization Oneg Shabbat. Scan QR codes at the exhibition and listen to recordings (English/Polish/Hebrew/German) on your smartphone.
“I replied that I was a volunteer.” Samuel Willenberg recalls August 1, 1944

Samuel Willenberg (1923-2016) was the last insurgent from Treblinka, and also a participant in the Warsaw Uprising. Read how he recalled August 1, 1944 and the beginning of the fight for Warsaw.
‘I could not grasp the immensity of our misery’. The beginning of the great deportation from the Warsaw ghetto

80 years ago, in the middle of a hot summer, the last chapter of life began for most of the inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto. By September 21, about 300,000 Jews were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp.
March of Remembrance, 22 July 1942

Eighty years ago, the Jewish community of Warsaw almost completely ceased to exist. In the summer of 1942, the Germans deported nearly 300,000 Jews to the Treblinka death camp. We invite you to participate in the annual March of Remembrance, commemorating the murdered inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto.
"Thank You God that I’m a Jew." The story of Nuchem Lejbkorn, a refugee from Skierniewice

Almost a quarter of the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto were refugees and deportees, Jews expelled by the Germans from cities and towns in occupied Poland, and sometimes also from Berlin or Hamburg. One of the refugees was Nuchem Lejbkorn from Skierniewice with his wife and five children, described by Samuel Puterman, a painter, Jewish policeman and a fugitive to the so-called the "Aryan" side.
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