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Fight for the preservation of monuments, trips with a camera all over Poland, tedious work in the archives. Jan Jagielski, a long-time employee of the Jewish Historical Institute, was one of the people who did the most to maintain and collect the documentation of Jewish synagogues and cemeteries. Dr. Eleonora Bergman, director of the Institute from 2007 to 2011, recalls their joint achievements.

Interesting discoveries happen in every library and the JHI library is no exception. This time I came across a work Rishmey Sheela, published in Warsaw, by Israel Moshe ben Arie Leib, a rabbi in Zabłudów. The Hebrew year [5]571, given in the chronogram, is the year 1811 in the Gregorian calendar. The volume belonging to the collection of the Jewish Historical Institute is the oldest book printed in Hebrew in Warsaw by a Jewish printer.

On July 22, the March of Remembrance passed through the streets of Warsaw for the thirteenth time. We honoured the victims of the mass extermination of the Warsaw Ghetto on the 82nd anniversary of the so-called Grossaktion. From July 22 to September 21, 1942, the Germans deported approximately 300,000 Warsaw Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp. We dedicated this year’s March to the rabbis of the Warsaw Ghetto.