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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

A writer in the Warsaw ghetto. Listen to the podcast about Rachela Auerbach

We invite you to listen to the third episode of the Oneg Szabat Podcast. Dr. Karolina Szymaniak (Jewish Historical Institute/University of Wrocław) tells about Rachela Auerbach, writer, journalist and social activist, associate of Emanuel Ringelblum.
The Archive’s guardian, teacher, man of letters. Israel Lichtensztajn

A teacher, social worker, a man of letters – Israel Lichtensztajn was one of the key figures of the Oneg Shabbat group. Together with Dawid Graber and Nachum Grzywacz, he hid from the Germans the first two parts of the Ringelblum Archive, containing over 35,000 pages of materials, in the basement at 68 Nowolipki Street. He died in the first days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which broke out on April 19, 1943.
"Don't say it's time to go the last way." Report from the 78th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

On April 19, 2021 at 12 AM sirens in Warsaw wailed in honor of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters. During the ceremony at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, attended by the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda, the Kaddish was recited and poems by Hirsz Glik, Andrzej Włast and Władysław Szlengel were sung.
April 19, 1943. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising through the eyes of survivors

78 years ago, around five in the morning, the Germans entered the Warsaw ghetto along Nalewki Street and from the intersection of Gęsia and Zamenhofa. The insurgents' shots surprised them. Although the most severe fights lasted only for a few days, the resistance of the ghetto inhabitants continued for a month. Unable to break it, the Germans decided to burn down all the buildings in the "closed district".
A handful of doomed in a hopeless fight. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

On April 19, 1943, the Germans entered the Warsaw ghetto. The insurgents, mostly young people from the Jewish Fighting Organization and the Jewish Military Union, opened fire. The creator of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, Emanuel Ringelblum, witnessed the preparations and fights.
78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - online broadcast

The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute together with the Social and Cultural Society of Jews in Poland and the Warsaw Ghetto Museum invite you to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
"I have come from very far away to bring bad news”. Primo Levi

On 11 April 1987, Primo Levi died in Turin. His death could have been an accident or a suicide. About the Italian writer, author of "The Drowned and the Saved" and "The Periodic Table", writes Karolina Ziółkowska from the Tłomackie Bookstore.
The Jewish Historical Institute closed from March 15 until further notice

The Jewish Historical Institute will be closed to visitors from March 15, 2021 until further notice due to new restrictions introduced by the Minister of Health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Artur Eisenbach – historian, director of the Jewish Historical Institute, friend of Emanuel Ringelblum

Artur Eisenbach was born on April 7, 1906 in Nowy Sącz (Southern Poland). He was a historian, friend and brother-in-law of Emanuel Ringelblum. During the war he stayed in the Soviet Union. His wife and daughter were murdered under German occupation. After the war, he worked at the Jewish Historical Institute, and in 1966 became its director. After Eisenbach's death, his photos, notes, materials and documents were placed in the JHI Archives.
Anniversary of the Katyn massacre. Read about Polish Jewish victims of the NKVD

81 years ago the NKVD, Soviet secret police, murdered nearly 22,000 Polish officers in Katyn, Tver and Kharkov. Many of them were of Jewish descent. Read the bios of seven Polish Jewish officers murdered in spring 1940.
Kosher and joyous Passover!

Best wishes on Passover.
Extermination of Polish Jews. The genesis and course of Operation Reinhard

The secret operation, the aim of which was to murder Polish Jews, was dubbed Operation Reinhard by the Germans, probably in honor of Reinhard Heydrich, the organizer of the Wannsee conference and the chief coordinator of the Holocaust.
You can't run away from Izbica. Jan Karski's story

It took Jan Karski two days to recover from a visit to the transit ghetto in Izbica. The Germans turned the Jewish town near Zamość into a transfer point for Jews from Poland, the Czech Republic and Western Europe, who were then transported to the death camps in Bełżec and Sobibór. In March 1942, the first train with Jews from Bohemia arrived there.
Signing of the Agreement on cooperation between the Jewish Historical Institute and the Warsaw Ghetto Museum

On March 12 director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Monika Krawczyk and director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, Albert Stankowski, have signed a cooperation agreement between the institutions.
There is no horizon in the ghetto sky. Watch the animations accompanying the exhibition "Where Art Thou? Gen 3,9"

Wall, hunger, fear, timelessness, uncertainty, faith. The places, states and feelings experienced by those imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto. Watch the animations accompanying the exhibition "Where Art Thou? Gen 3:9".
Emanuel Ringelblum – optimist who believed in the human being

21 November marks the 120th birthday anniversary of Emanuel Ringelblum, historian and social activist, founder of Oneg Shabbat – an underground organization dedicated to the documentation of the fate of Jews under the German occupation.
February 22, 1943. Jewish Combat Organization assassinates Alfred Nossig, a Gestapo collaborator

At the end of February 1943, the Jewish Combat Organization carried out another execution in the Warsaw ghetto. Alfred Nossig, once an important Zionist activist, sculptor and Gestapo collaborator, was shot in his own apartment at Muranowska 42 Street.
"Pierce from end to end." The first modern Jewish school in Warsaw

93 years ago, on February 19, 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 Jewish studies.”
In memory of Jan Jagielski

We are sorry to inform you about the death of Jan Jagielski, a social activist and guardian of Jewish cemeteries in Poland. For us, he was first of all Mr. Janek, who treated the Jewish Historical Institute as his second home. May his soul be bound with the knot of life.
Mouse in bread. Polish-Jewish relations in Łuków according to the pre-war press

Everyday situations, joyful and tragic events, economic boycott and political intrigues. Looking through old newspapers, we can see how colorful and sometimes turbulent Polish-Jewish relations in Łuków were before 1939.
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