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15.04.2021
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.
10.04.2021
"I have come from very far away to bring bad news”. Primo Levi
08.04.2021
The Jewish Historical Institute closed from March 15 to April 25
06.04.2021
Artur Eisenbach – historian, director of the Jewish Historical Institute, friend of Emanuel Ringelblum
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02.04.2021
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.
26.03.2021
Kosher and joyous Passover!
Best wishes on Passover.
12.03.2021
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.
12.03.2021
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.
11.03.2021
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".
19.02.2021
"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.”
17.02.2021
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.
12.02.2021
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.
10.02.2021
They left the burning ghetto through the sewers. "Kazik" Ratajzer – Symcha Rotem
96 years ago, Symcha Rotem, or 'Kazik' Ratajzer, was born, the last participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It was he who, in May 1943, led the Jewish Combat Organization fighters out of the burning ghetto through the sewers. If it weren't for "Kazik", we might have learned almost nothing about the fights in the ghetto.
05.02.2021
Welcome back to JHI starting from February 9
A story about fear and hope, about civil resistance and heroism in the face of ultimate evil, and a journey to the world of religion and culture of Polish Jews. From February 9, 2021 the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute reopens to visitors.
27.01.2021
January 27, 1945. Liberation of Auschwitz
76 years ago, Red Army troops entered the Auschwitz concentration camp abandoned by the Germans. Several thousand prisoners remained in its area, too weak and sick to be able to take part in the death marches led by SS men to the west. At last the liberated could receive help.
26.01.2021
Statement on the removal of Warsaw Ghetto artifacts from Poland
Statement by Monika Krawczyk, director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Albert Stankowski, director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum and Zygmunt Stępiński, director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, regarding the removal of Warsaw Ghetto artifacts from Poland.
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.
21.12.2020
Professor Paweł Śpiewak: Do not close the experience in a time capsule
The collections of the Jewish Historical Institute should be exhibited, so that anyone who visits us may say: there are treasures. We moved the Institute from the era of typewriting to the Internet era. We open up with exhibitions, lectures, film and theater screenings, trying to attract especially the residents of Warsaw. This is the way to the future. Olga Drenda talks to the director of the Jewish Historical Institute, professor Paweł Śpiewak.
11.12.2020
Beniamin Rozenfeld. Draftsman of the Warsaw ghetto, conspirator, insurgent
The identity of Beniamin Rozenfeld, the author of a series of five drawings from the Ringelblum Archive, depicting the living conditions and death in the Warsaw Ghetto, was established by Józef Sandel and confirmed by Dr. Agnieszka Żółkiewska. Learn about the researcher's findings.
10.12.2020
Hanukkah 5781 – Festival of Lights
On the 25th of the month of Kislev (this year on December 10 in the Gregorian calendar), Hanukkah begins. The Jews all over the world call it the Festival of Lights (from Hebrew Chag HaUrim). It will last eight days until the 2nd of the month of Tevet (December 18) in the year 5781.
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.
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