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.

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 will be closed to visitors from March 15 to April 25, 2021 due to new restrictions introduced by the Minister of Health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

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.

Best wishes on Passover.

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.

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.

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".

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.”