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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.
Take part in the conference: 80 Years after "Aktion Reinhardt" (1942-1943): Social Responses and Commemoration
Does anyone know the Chamaides family from Lviv? JHI Genealogy asks for help
"He didn't want to leave the kids for even a minute." 80 years ago, Janusz Korczak went to the Umschlagplatz
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"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.
“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.
“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.
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.
"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.
Mass murder of Jewish citizens in Jedwabne, Radziłów and other locations in the eastern Mazovia region in the summer of 1941
On 22 June 1941, the Soviet-German war began. Within several weeks, the Germans had seized northern Mazovia, Podlasie as well as Northern and Eastern Borderlands (Kresy), areas occupied by the Soviets since 1939. The new invaders annexed these lands to Eastern Prussia as the Bialystok region. The outbreak of the Soviet-German war proved to be a turning point in World War II. This article examines the circumstances of pogroms in Jedwabne and nearby areas, which took place after they were captured
…hatred, whose strength shocks and forces to think… The Kielce pogrom, July 4, 1946
On July 4, 1946, the city of Kielce saw the biggest pogrom of Jews in Poland since the end of World War II.
JHI signed a cooperation agreement with Dubnow-Institut
Thanks to the agreement, both institutions can conduct closer coordinated research. The Jewish Historical Institute was represented by the director Monika Krawczyk, and The Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow by Professor Yfaat Weiss.
June 26, 1942. BBC informs about the extermination of Polish Jews
Eighty years ago, the BBC broadcast a program about the Holocaust of Polish Jews, based on materials donated to the Polish government in London by Jewish organizations in Poland. It was an important day for Emanuel Ringelblum's associates. Unfortunately, the ordeal of Jews in occupied Poland continued.
Summer 2022: changes in the opening hours of the JHI Archive and Library
During the holiday season, the Library of the Jewish Historical Institute will be open at changed hours.
In the footsteps of Jews in the Lublin region. Report from the JHI study trip
From 13-15th June 2022, employees of the Jewish Historical Institute went on a study trip to the Lublin region. We saw an exhibition devoted to the memory of the Jews from Lublin at the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre, the reconstruction of the Wołpa synagogue in Biłgoraj, took a look at the Jewish cemeteries in Chełm and Lublin, and went to the station from which Jews from Zamość were deported. The most important points were visits to the former Majdanek concentration camp and extermination centre, and the former Sobibór and Bełżec extermination camps.
"Dancers 1944. Mieczysław Wejman." Visit our temporary exhibition
‘The artist’s works in the years 1943–1944, between the July 1942 “Gross Aktion” (Great Action or Operation, namely the deportation and mass murder of Jews from the Jewish quarter), the Ghetto Uprising (April 1943) and the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising (August 1st 1944) became one of the most important Polish artistic documents recording the German occupation – especially the Holocaust,’ writes Dr. Piotr Rypson, curator of the temporary exhibition “Dancers 1944. Mieczysław Wejman”.
“Uncle has the apartment near you almost ready”. What are the letters in the Ringelblum Archive about?
What is crypto-information in the letters from Jews from 1942?
JHI signed a cooperation agreement with Herzog College
Thanks to the agreement, both institutions will be able to effectively use their resources for research on the heritage of Polish Jews. The Jewish Historical Institute was represented by director Monika Krawczyk, and Herzog College – by professor Daniel Reiser.
Dance in the fire of war. Report from the opening of the exhibition “Dancers 1944. Mieczysław Wejman”
On May 26, we opened the temporary exhibition “Dancers 1944. Mieczysław Wejman”, presenting a unique series of graphics by the artist and witness of the Holocaust in the Warsaw Ghetto, created at the beginning of 1944, when Wejman was hiding from the Germans. This is the first such extensive presentation of the artist’s works from the war period. Read the report from the exhibition opening.
Who is that dancing beneath the wall? "Dancers 1944. Mieczysław Wejman"
Dancers, actors, actresses, acrobats. “Misfits who cover up something and reveal something in dance positions or circus tricks, assume and change roles, perform their dance steps alone or interact with the crowd through dance”. From May 27, 2022, you can visit the JHI's new temporary exhibition "Dancing 1944. Mieczysław Wejman", devoted to a unique series of prints from the occupation period. Who was Mieczysław Wejman? What do his works say about the experience of the war and the fate of Jews in Warsaw?
Bridging Divides. Rupture and Continuity in Polish Jewish History | Take part in conference on the 75th anniversary of the Jewish Historical Institute
In honor of its 75th anniversary, the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, together with the Yale University Fortunoff Archive and the Yeshiva University Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, will host an international conference in Warsaw on May 23-26, 2022, dedicated to bridging historiographical and disciplinary divides. The event is also part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the extermination of Jews as part of the German operation "Reinhardt". Follow the conference live on YouTube.
April 19-May 16, 1943. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
„My dream has come true. Jewish self-defense in the ghetto was a fact. Jewish armed resistance and vengeance have become reality. I was a witness of great, heroic struggle of Jewish fighters”, wrote Mordechaj Anielewicz on 23 April 1943 to Icchak Cukierman, responsible for contact with Polish underground, who remained outside of the Warsaw Ghetto at that time.
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