The Lost Tale. New exhibition of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum
The Museum of the Warsaw Ghetto (MGW) has opened an exhibition entitled “The Ghetto is Burning,” which was intended to showcase Jewish female couriers during…
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“Poles killed Jews because the Polish state ceased to exist.” IPN employee testifies in court against Jan Grabowski
Tomasz Panfil, a historian affiliated with the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) and the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), testified on Tuesday, February 7,…
Does loyalty to ancestral customs deserve condemnation?
I used to like dropping by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw; first to the bookstore, then to the archives, to do some work, and…
Trial concerning the right to speak about the dark sides of Polish history
Polish children need to be shown a moral foundation and they have to be prevented from reading articles or books about the dark sides of…
Mischaracterisation, alleged and real
A recent conference in Berlin [„Hijacking Memory. The Holocaust and the New Right”, co-organized by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Einstein Forum and…
Statement by representatives of Jewish organizations
Recently, attempts have been made to strike against historians and journalists who are trying to fairly present the fate of Polish Jews under the German…
Competition to Create Artistic Vision of the Holocaust Trains
Project by Swedish Holocaust Memorial Association (SHMA) The Holocaust experience has been so painful as almost impossible to explain to future generations in a meaningful…
Declaration of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland
In our capacity as the Executive Board of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland we would like to express our support and…
Statement of the Jewish Association B’nai B’rith in Poland
Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking, two eminent scholars of the Holocaust, co-authors of the book “Night Without End. Fates of Jews in Selected Counties of…
On a mission to Destroy The Scholars of the Holocaust. “Polish Anti-defamation League” pursues the authors of the book “Night Without End”
Wojciech Czuchnowski’s article has been published in Gazeta Wyborcza on January 22, 2021, p. 4. Reprinted here with the permission of Gazeta Wyborcza. Once it…
POLIN Museum’s debate: Whose legacy is it?
Soon, POLIN Museum will open a new section of its core exhibition called the Legacy Gallery. The gallery will be devoted to the Polish Jews…
Personal effects from Norwegian concentration camp prisoners: 25 families receive mementos of their relatives
While visiting the Arolsen Archives, a Norwegian journalist discovered a small collection of personal items that had been confiscated from concentration camp prisoners from Norway…
„A Serious Man”
As part of the Jewish Culture Festival in Copenhagen, I went to the screenplay of „A Serious Man” by brothers Joel and Ethan Cohen. Before…