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EHRI-ERIC Strategy Days and EHRI NCC Meeting in Prague

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“Documenting the Holocaust: Testimonies as Historical Evidence” The international conference organized within the framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)

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Debate: "Holocaust Research after October 7, 2023: Changes, Continuities, Challenges"

„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”.
„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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Exhibitions in JHI reopened from June 1, 2020

As part of the gradual opening of cultural institutions to the public in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, some of the Jewish Historical Institute exhibitions will be opened for guests from June 1. Please learn about special rules of visiting our exhibitions.
May 16, 1943. Destruction of the Great Synagogue of Warsaw

The Great Synagogue in Warsaw existed for a very short time, less than 65 years. Its ceremonial opening took place on September 26, 1878. Its blowing up by SS troops, which suppressed the ghetto uprising, was meant to symbolize the end of Jewish Warsaw.
Events at the Jewish Historical Institute in 2020

’May their souls be bound in the bundle of life’. We present events at the Jewish Historical Institute in 2020, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Call for Papers: Conference „The Holocaust between Global and Local Perspectives”

The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity is welcoming submissions for the 10th conference within the Genealogies of Memory series: The Holocaust between Local and Global Perspectives, which will take place in Warsaw, 25–27 November 2020. Application deadline is 31 May 2020. The Jewish Historical Institute is a partner of the event.
’The Great Synagogue Restores Memory’. Live broadcast at 8 PM

’The Great Synagogue, destroyed by Nazi Germany after the fall of the ghetto uprising, will be symbolically rebuilt for the third time. The image of the synagogue emerging from the rubble will appear on the wall of the Blue Tower, on the facade of the building, which took the place after the Great Synagogue after the war’.
March 28th. Anniversary of Marc Chagall’s death. Find the artist’s works on the DELET website

On March 28th, 1985, Marc Chagall, the Russian-French painter, illustrator and graphic artist of Jewish origin, died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence in Provence. He was 97. Photographs of his works from the early 20th century can be viewed on the DELET website.
The project „Synagogue in Oni (Georgia) – traces of Polish and Georgian heritage in Israel”

Project is directed at students from Poland, Georgia and Israel and aimed at presenting the heritage of the Polish Jews, which inspired in turn the Jews in Georgia, and eventually became a myth for Georgian Jews who have settled in Israel.
Delet II Project – the “Berlinka” Collection

The Association of the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland, working in cooperation with the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, has received a subsidy for the development of the DELET II project from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The subsidy, granted as part of the programme Digital Culture 2019, will serve to fund the digitalisation of the so-called “Berlinka” collection.
22 July March of Remembrance

On the 77th anniversary of the beginning of the great liquidation action of the Warsaw Ghetto the Jewish Historical Institute, together with its partners, invites you to the July 22 March of Remembrance. Together we will pay homage to the 300,000 murdered Warsaw Jews, whose life and death were captured by Władysław Szlengel in his poetry.
Light of the negative / Images from the Ringelblum Archive and the Jerzy Lewczyński Archive: Reinterpreted

Temporary exhibition at the Jewish Historical Institute, 26 April – 25 August 2019.
We’re looking for Simon (Symcha) Trachter’s works
Oneg Szabat Ambassadors in Poland

’I want to understand the story of my family’, ’I’m interested in the history of the Holocaust, because as a lawyer, I want to specialize in human rights’, ’I want to learn more about the life of Jews in Poland and about the Shoah’, ’I would like to get to know my roots’ — these were the motivations shared by this year’s participants of the Oneg Szabat Ambassadors Program.
To save from oblivion — Jews from Rudnik
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