80 years ago, Polish inhabitants of Jedwabne had brutally murdered their Jewish neighbours.

‘This year’s March of Remembrance is dedicated to the teachers. In the ghetto’s extreme conditions, they still believed in the importance of education and moral standards they were teaching. Until the very last moments before deportations they accompanied their students in reading and writing lessons or preparations to their graduations exams. Many of them joined the pupils in their last journey to the Umschlagplatz,’ says Monika Krawczyk, Director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, about the heroes of our annual 22nd of July March of Remembrance. The event will start at 6 pm CET at Umschlagplatz Memorial, 10 Stawki Street, Warsaw.

We are looking for the descendants of the family Wulkan from Oświęcim. We received a letter with the information that Mr Ireneusz from Germany has the machzor (prayer book) which belonged to Aron Wulkan, and he would like the prayer book to be returned to the family.

79 years ago, the worst predictions of the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto came true. The Germans began the "relocation to the east" – a mass deportation of Jews through the Umschlagplatz to the gas chambers of the Treblinka extermination camp. About 300,000 Jews were murdered by September 21.

On 1st August, 1944 at 5pm an uprising broke out in Warsaw. Among the fighters were also Jews. Some of them had participated previously in the bloodily suppressed uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto and then in guerrilla fights in the forests. The autonomous platoon of the Jewish Fighting Organisation belonging to Armia Ludowa (People's Army) was the only strictly Jewish fighting formation among the insurgents.

Alter Kacyzne — Jewish photographer, writer and columnist — was born on May 31, 1885 in Vilnius. Emanuel Ringelblum dedicated one of his notes from the bunker to him.

On May 26, we celebrate Mother's Day and the 135th anniversary of the birth of Stefania Wilczyńska, the only "Mother" that the children from the Orphans' Home at ul. Krochmalna. Like Janusz Korczak, "Mrs. Stefa" took care of the children without pay, engaging with all her strength in upbringing and teaching. Stefania Wilczyńska is remembered by Ida Merżan, a dormitory student and associate of the Orphans' Home.

Simple DNA tests can bring unexpected results that lead to finding a family, identity lost during the war, regaining their first name, fragments of life that seemed to be lost. But not in this case. The research only confirmed that Irenka was a Jewish child. She was adopted by a beautiful family who adopted her and looked after her in later life.

On 21 May 1980, Ida Kamińska, the most outstanding – next to her mother, Ester Rachel Kamińska – actress of the Yiddish theater, died in New York.

On May 20, 2021, the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute and the Museum of Warsaw opened a new chapter in cooperation. The institutions’ directors: Monika Krawczyk and Dr. Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska signed an agreement aimed at mutual exchange of knowledge and experience related to the study of the history and heritage of Jews in Warsaw.