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"More Important Than Life: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto" Exhibition opening

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The Jewish Historical Institute - closed on 15th and 16th of August!

"More Important Than Life: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto" exhibition - 14th of August

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JHI reading room closed in August 2025

The January deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto

The Germans had planned the beginning of the second stage of liquidation of the ghetto for 18 January 1943. The goal was to deport about 8,000 people to Treblinka. For the first time, the Jews had responded with armed resistance. The struggle lasted for only four days, but – as Cywia Lubetkin recalled after the war — „the German plan to deport all the remaining Jews of Warsaw to Treblinka was prevented”. Several members of Oneg Shabbat have died in that time – among them Gustawa Jarecka, Abraham
The next volume of the English edition of the Ringlelblum Archive

From January 14, the second volume of translations of the full edition of the Ringelblum Archive entitled „Accounts from borderlands, 1939–1941” will be available for sale. Translation of all volumes is one of the elements of the Oneg Szabat Program.
Emanuel Ringelblum’s writings in the complete edition of the Archive

The complete Polish edition of the Ringelblum Archive was expanded with two valuable volumes: Emanuel Ringelblum’s writings from the ghetto and from the „Krysia” bunker.
Simcha Rathajzer-Rotem died in Jerusalem

Simcha Rathajzer-Rotem, also known by his nom de guerre „Kazik”, died in Jerusalem. He was one of the last surviving Jewish fighters in the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
And if I was to forget for one day… Rachela Auerbach

Journalist, social activist. Her efforts, continuing in the difficult period of post-war reconstruction, when the significance of the hidden documentation wasn’t yet realized, contributed to the discovery of the Archive in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. 18 December marks the 120th anniversary of Rachela Auerbach’s birth.
Szmaja and his wife. Does anyone recognize any of the women?
Anniversary of the foundation of Żegota

4th December marks the 77th anniversary of the foundation of the Council to Aid Jews, operating under the code name of Żegota.
DO YOU RECOGNIZE THIS BOY?
68th anniversary of discovering the second part of the Ringelblum Archive

On 1 December 1950, in the area of the Muranów C housing estate, at 68 Nowolipki street, diggers and bulldozers of the State Workers’ Estates Construction Enterprise were preparing the area for a new building. Suddenly, they came across two milk cans, which contained a treasure hidden in February 1943 – the second part of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Who will write our history?

Roberta Grossman’s film premiered on 21 July at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, where it received the Audience Award. This year, it will be screened in Poland – on 12 November, it will open the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival. The Jewish Historical Institute is one of the film’s partners.
The movie „Who will write our history” will open the 16th Warsaw Jewish Film Festiwal

The script for the film directed by Roberta Grossman was based on a book by American historian Samuel D. Kassow, dedicated to the Oneg Shabbat group and the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Mały Przegląd / Little Review

On 9 October 1926, the first issue of „Mały Przegląd” (Little Review) was published – the only periodical whose contributors were children. The editor was Janusz Korczak.
We must rescue the Ringelblum Archive!

„Remember! A national treasure is buried in the ruins. The Ringelblum Archive is there. Even if the ruins reach five storeys high, we must find the Archive”, called Rachela Auerbach during the commemoration of the third anniversary of the Ghetto Uprising. Thanks to the determination of people aware of the significance of documents hidden in the Borochov school, the first part of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto was unearthed on 18 September 1946. Seventy one years later, on 18 Septem
A man escaped from Treblinka... The story of Jakub Krzepicki

On 13 September 1942, Abraham (Jakub) Krzepicki escaped from the Treblinka II extermination camp. His account was written down by Rachela Auerbach and hidden in the second part of the Ringelblum Archive. It begins with words: „The phenomenon of Treblinka is difficult to describe, but also even to understand. It’s hard even to begin. I feel a lump in my throat...”
77th anniversary of Józef Kapłan’s death

Józef Kapłan was a Hashomer Hatzair activist. He was invited to join the Oneg Shabbat by Ringelblum himself in 1942. Kapłan was an important liaison with underground organizations; however, no texts signed by him have been preserved in the Archive. On September 3, 1942, Kapłan was arrested and imprisoned at the Pawiak. He was executed in the ghetto, inside the gate of a house on Dzielna Street, on September 11.
Szymon Huberband, rabbi and historian

On August 18, 1942, Huberband and his second wife were taken to the Umschlagplatz, whence he was sent to the Treblinka extermination camp. Menachem Mendel Kohn remembered that only two hours earlier he had talked to him about his future texts for the Oneg Shabbat.
75th anniversary of revolt in the Treblinka II death camp

The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute would like to invite you to the official commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the prisoners’ revolt in the Treblinka II extermination camp. The events will be attended by honorary guest — Ada Krystyna Willenberg, Samuel Willenberg’s widow, with her family.
The Delet App is available

Discover the collections of the Jewish Historical Institute and browse them on your mobile device (Android only). We cordially invite you to download the Delet App, which we have prepared together with Mysza Software.
22 July March of Remembrance

This year, the march is dedicated to the memory of Shmuel Zygielbojm, a Bund activist, who made efforts throughout these months to alert the Western public opinion about mass extermination of Jews in occupied Poland. After many months of struggle against the West’s indifference, in act of solidarity with the insurgents of the Warsaw Ghetto, he committed suicide. In the March of Remembrance, we want to bring back the memory about him.
110th anniversary of Henryka Łazowertówna’s birth

Poet, writer and translator. After the outbreak World War II, she became involved in social work, including on behalf of the charity organization CENTOS and the Jewish Social Self-Help, for which she prepared publicity materials. For the Oneg Shabbat, she wrote the history of the ghetto’s poorest and most precarious inhabitants, a story of individual Jewish families’ struggle to survive. Murdered in Treblinka during the Great Deportation. Not wanting to leave her mother, she refused to leave the Umschlagplatz when offered the opportunity.
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