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A multidisciplinary project planned for many years: a virtual Encyclopedia of the Warsaw Ghetto – has begun at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute. The Encyclopedia will be a synthesis of all works on the complete edition of the Ringelblum Archive. It will also include other archive collections of the JHI as well as published source materials and personal accounts regarding the Warsaw Ghetto and the Holocaust. The Encyclopedia will be integrated with academic research on the subje

On August 2, 2022, at the museum of the German Nazi extermination camp Treblinka II, we paid tribute to the people murdered in this place and to the participants of the prisoners' revolt of 1943. The ceremony, co-organized by the Jewish Historical Institute, was attended by Ada Willenberg, widow of Samuel Willenberg, who died in 2016 as the last participant of the Treblinka uprising. Present were representatives of state and local authorities, parliament, diplomatic corps, institutions, associations, the Jewish community, the Righteous among the Nations.

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.