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EHRI-ERIC National Coordinators Committee Meeting in Zagreb

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Purim Ball "Return to Eden"

Marian Turski has passed away

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.
The winners of life. Cecylia Słapakowa

The lives of Jewish women in the ghetto were documented by Cecylia Słapakowa. She was a Vilnius-born translator, founder of the Warsaw literary salon, who in 1942 carried out 17 interviews with Jewish women from various social backgrounds and professions. This priceless source for research on daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto shows a shift in the social role of women during the war, but above all, it praises their versatility, courage and sacrifice.
A divorce of Chana Hermelin and Awram Mosze Fingerhut

A few days ago we received a mail from a family searching for information about a woman called Chana HERMELIN. The story they told is a little sneak-peak to the life of women in the pre-war Jewish community in Poland, and in the world, and it corresponds with a previous post about the status of ’Aguna’.
He felt uncomfortable only when he had to shoot. Yitzhak Zuckerman

Yitzhak „Antek” Zuckerman, co-founder of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB), died on June 17, 1981.
Józef Sandel. The protagonist of Adam Nowiński’s letter to Symche Trachter
Hersz Wasser – the Oneg Shabbat’s Secretary

Hersz Wasser was Emanuel Ringelblum’s closest collaborator, the heir of the Oneg Shabbat after the war. He handled the organization’s everyday affairs, obtaining and cataloguing documents, recruiting and keeping a record of employees, purchasing stationery and managing the finances. As one of three surviving members of the Oneg Shabbat, he was the only one who knew where the Archive was hidden, which made it possible to find the first cache in 1946.
73rd anniversary of the Kielce pogrom

4th of July marks 70th anniversary of the Kielce pogrom of Jews. Their killers were Polish neighbors, and those tragic events took place in Poland liberated from German occupation.
Jechiel (Chil) Górny

In Oneg Shabbat, he was responsible for cataloguing materials and copying documents – together with Hersz Wasser, Bluma Wasser and Eliasz Gutkowski. He was writing down and editing first-hand accounts. His diary provides a priceless record of the Great Deportation and the battles of January 1943. During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, he was a member of Hersz Berliński’s combat unit. He died in the sewers, trying to escape the burning ghetto.
To bring out the beauty of every child

One of the metal boxes which contain the first part of the Ringelblum Archive includes a collection of works by painter Gela Seksztajn, along with documentation of her artistic career, photographs and testament. Her paintings and drawings are a unique part of the Oneg Shabbat legacy. They provide a special illustration of the fate of the Jewish community before and during World War 2.
Lag ba-Omer

Lag ba-Omer — also known as the Scholar’s Day – is the festival of the 33th Day of the Omer. It is celebrated on the 18th day of the Iyar month – this year, it’s 22 May.
76th Anniversary of the destruction of the Great Synagogue of Warsaw

On 16th May, 1943 not only the most impressive synagogue in Warsaw but also the entire Jewish district ceased to exist. The demolition of the synagogue was a symbolic act of the triumph over the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which had been ongoing since 19th April 1943.
I can neither be silent nor live when the last remnants of the Jewish people, whose I represent, are being killed

At night, between 11 and 12 May 1943, when the last fighters were being murdered in the Warsaw Ghetto, Zygielbojm committed suicide. He left three farewell letters addressed to: his brother Fajwel, who lived in Johannesburg, fellow party members in the United States, the President and Prime Minister of Poland.
11. anniversary of Irena Sendler’s death

Irena Sendlerowa died on 12 May 2008 in Warsaw.
Władysław Szlengel’s unknown photograph from 1938

For the first time, we are presenting a previously unknown photograph of Władysław Szlengel. It was found in the resources of the National Library by dr Agnieszka Żółkiewska, a scholar working at the Jewish Historical Institute.
Poems I was reading to the dead. Władysław Szlengel

On 8 May 1943, Władysław Szlengel, a Polish poet of Jewish origin, author of cabaret lyrics and songs, was shot. The first part of the Ringelblum Archive contains several satirical poems written by Szlengel before the Great Deportation. The second part of the Archive includes the poems, such as ’A small station called Treblinka’, ’Passport’, ’Five minutes to midnight’ and ’Telephone’.
BROTHERS REUNITED AFTER MORE THAN 70 YEARS
Where was the world when the Jews were going to their death? Szmuel Winter

Entrepreneur, philanthropist, enthusiast of Jewish folklore and language, Szmuel (Shmuel) Winter supported financially the activity of the Oneg Shabbat group – from his own money and from the finances of the Supply Department, where he worked. According to the Oneg Shabbat cash book, more than half of the means managed by Ringelblum’s group was donated by Winter.
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.
77th anniversary of Menachem Linder’s death

A talented scholar, dedicated with his entire heart and soul to the development of Jewish culture, founder of YIKOR, the Jewish Cultural Organization. Ringelblum, whose Linder was one of the closest associates, wrote about him: ’he wasn’t preoccupied with science for science itself. As a devoted Socialist, he applied science to his work towards everyday social aid’.
158th anniversary of Michał Landy’s death

On 8 April 1861, Michał Landy, student of the Real Gymnasium in Warsaw, was severely wounded during a patriotic demostration at the Castle Square. He died on the next day at the St.Roch hospital. He was buried at night, on 10/11 April, at the Jewish cemetery at Okopowa street.
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