Events

• Date: 16 November (Monday), 10AM — 2PM CET

• broadcast live on the POLIN Museum and co-organizers’ websites, and on POLIN Museum YouTube channel
• Presentations delivered in Polish with simultaneous translation into English

Conference programme:

The first ghettos in occupied Poland were established as early as the autumn of 1939. The Warsaw Ghetto was established a year later. Its creation was a complex, dynamic process. A large section of Warsaw’s city centre was transformed into a prison where 450,000 Jews lived and died.

The conference aims at discussing various aspects connected with the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto. The issues to be raised include changing plans of the Germans and their actions, the dilemmas of the Jewish population as well as the perception of ghettoization by Jews and their Polish neighbors. The little-known stories of non-Jewish Poles who found themselves imprisoned in the ghetto will also be discussed.

Conference organized by: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Polish Center for Holocaust Research, Jewish Historical Institute,
Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland

Conference patron: Polish Institute Tel Aviv

The academic conference „«…the news came like a bolt from the blue».” 80th Anniversary of Sealing Off the Warsaw Ghetto is supported by the EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and by the state budget