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04.01.2021

Monika Krawczyk appointed director of the Jewish Historical Institute

On January 1, 2021, Monika Krawczyk began a five-year term as the Director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute.

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21.12.2020

Professor Paweł Śpiewak: Do not close the experience in a time capsule

11.12.2020

Beniamin Rozenfeld. Draftsman of the Warsaw ghetto, conspirator, insurgent

10.12.2020

Hanukkah 5781 – Festival of Lights

01.12.2020

The closest friend of a Jewish child

Roza Simchowicz was a teacher and a social activist. She dedicated her entire life to Jewish children. In the Warsaw Ghetto, where she helped children living on the streets, she had reached the very bottom of children’s poverty. As a result of disagreeing to set up a barrier separating her from patients, she became infected with typhus. She refused aid from Joint, believing that there are others who have contributed more to the society. She died in late November 1941 and was buried on 2 December
25.11.2020

Winners of Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award for 2019 and 2020

The recipients of the Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award for 2019 and 2020 have been anounced. The award has been given to professor Daniel Grinberg and dr hab. Joanna Lisek.
06.11.2020

In memory of Izrael Lejzerowicz

Izrael Lejzerowicz lived and worked in Łódź. Little is known about his education. Probably, thanks to a scholarship, he studied at an independent academy of fine arts in Berlin; it might have been Lewin-Funcke-Schule. Other sources say that he studied in Rome. He was a polyglot; he could speak Yiddish, Polish, Russian and German.
02.11.2020

From November 2, until further notice, the Jewish Historical Institute is closed to visitors

From November 2, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Jewish Historical Institute will be closed to visitors until further notice. Find out how to view our collections online.
12.10.2020

„Great inspiration from Tłomackie. Warsaw – Oni – Beer Sheva” – watch the film

What was the heritage of the Great Synagogue in Warsaw? We present a record of the educational project of the Jewish Historical Institute — the short film „Great inspiration from Tłomackie. Warsaw – Oni – Beer Sheva”.
09.10.2020

„Great artists suffer and can never be sure of their skill”. Symcha Trachter in Paris

In the museums, salons and exhibitions of the 1920s Paris, young Symcha Trachter encountered the greatest masters of modern painting. His stay in France contributed to the development of his individual style.
30.09.2020

Limited access to the JHI Archive from October 5, 2020

From October 5, access to archival documents kept in the Jewish Historical Institute collection will be temporarily difficult or impossible due to construction works. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
07.09.2020

Unfulfilled hopes. The Jews of Warsaw and the Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, Alexander I

In the Napoleonic Wars era, the rights of Warsaw Jews were being gradually limited. The community located their hopes for improvement in the person of Emperor Alexander I of Russia, considered a liberal monarch. Russian count Novosiltsev played a significant role in complex political games between Poles, Jews and Russians.
04.09.2020

Symcha Trachter 1894–1942. Light and color – photo report from the opening of the temporary exhibition

On September 3, 2020 took place the opening of our newest temporary exhibition dedicated to the work of Symcha Trachter (1894–1942), a painter associated with Lublin and Kazimierz Dolny, prisoner of the Warsaw Ghetto. We invite you to visit the exhibition until October 25.
24.08.2020

Symcha Trachter, 1894–1942. Light and Color – Temporary Exhibition

On August 27, 2020, the temporary exhibition ‘Symcha Trachter 1894–1942. Light and Color’, devoted to one of the outstanding Polish painters of the interwar period, opens at the Jewish Historical Institute.
24.08.2020

Symcha Trachter, 1894–1942. Light and Color – Temporary Exhibition

On August 27, 2020, the temporary exhibition ‘Symcha Trachter 1894–1942. Light and Color’, devoted to one of the outstanding Polish painters of the interwar period, opens at the Jewish Historical Institute.
31.07.2020

‘We saw ourselves already outside the gates of the inferno’. Treblinka uprising through the eyes of Jankiel Wiernik

Carpenter Jankiel Wiernik took part in the uprising in the Treblinka extermination camp on August 2, 1943. He was one of the few prisoners who managed to survive. After reaching Warsaw, he wrote down his experiences, which in 1944 were published by the Polish resistance as the brochure ‘A Year in Treblinka’.
28.07.2020

July 28, 1942. Establishment of the Jewish Combat Organization

78 years ago, during the Great Deportation, Zionist youth organizations in the Warsaw Ghetto established the Jewish Combat Organization. It was the so-called ‘first’ JCO, existing until September-October 1942.
21.07.2020

22 July 2020. March of Remembrance

On the 78th anniversary of the beginning of the great liquidation action of the Warsaw ghetto, the Jewish Historical Institute and its partners invite you to the March of Remembrance.
21.07.2020

‘I could not grasp the immensity of our misery’. The beginning of the great deportation from the Warsaw ghetto

78 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.
13.07.2020

“Before Our Lives End...” Parczew, 1942

A story about remembrance. This album is dedicated to the memory of the Sochaczewski family. About Czesław, Jadwiga, about grandmother Ester, Katarzyna, Maria, Stella and Regina.
03.07.2020

…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.
30.06.2020

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
04.06.2020

June 4, 1942. Two Jewish artists shot in Krakow

78 years ago, at the corner of Dąbrówki and Janowa Wola streets in the Kraków ghetto, the Germans shot a group of elderly Jews who were being led to a transport to the Bełżec death camp. Among them were the painter Abraham Neuman and the poet Mordechaj Gebirtig, considered the last Jewish bard of Kraków. Today we remember both artists.
03.06.2020

Research visits at the JHI from May 18, 2020

Rules for conducting research visits at the Jewish Historical Institute from May 18, 2020, in the conditions of partial opening of cultural institutions in Poland during the coronavirus pandemic.
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