A conversation about history by Prof. Jan Grabowski and Prof. Jan Tomasz Gross
[in Polish with English subtitles] Jewish.pl and Czarne Publishing House invite you on May 18 (Monday) at 7.30pm (Warsaw time) for an online conversation of…
An answer to the IPN
A few days ago I published on Facebook a short note in English (a Polish translation has later been published on the website Jewish.pl) in…
The nationalist offensive on the history of the Shoah
The controversial Museum of the Warsaw Ghetto has been created two years ago by Piotr Gliński, the Polish minister of Culture, a die-hard nationalist responsible…
Yom HaShoah
Remembrance Day for 6 million Jews murdered by German extermination machine and collaborating with it bollards and helpers of all kinds. Remembrance Day for the…
Joseph
Well, and good morning to you too! Oh, yes. That’s correct. The old Joseph that’s me. What? Are they telling stories about me? Probably because…
A War that Disrupted the Family
“Krigen, der splittede min familie” The Danish television broadcasted a documentary film entitled “The war that disrupted my family”. Recently I have heard a lecture…
Scars without wounds?
„Memory goes first down to the grave …” (Anna Frajlich) On December 10, Judith Beerman Zeligson, a psychotherapist, gave a lecture in the Jewish Community…
But let it not happen
Esther carries heavy shopping bags. She is waiting for the elevator to get to the eighth floor, but when the door opens and she sees…
Survivor
Well. It’s not a problem. I cannot speak but I can still understand Polish. It’s like to drive a bike. One can be very rusty,…
April 1st, (April Fool’s Day) 1944
There is a tradition among the Polish nation that [on April 1st] one tries to trick another. One Christian woman came from Opoczno in order…
Statement of the director of YIVO in connection with the publication of “Do Rzeczy Historia” magazine
In connection with the publication of the interview with Jonathan Brent in the latest issue of the “Do Rzeczy Historia” magazine, you can find his…
Former priest called for a “harvest” on Jews. Polish Public Prosecutor’s Office refuses to open an investigation
The District Prosecutor’s Office for Warsaw’s district Śródmieście refused to open an investigation into the case of “public insult to a group of people on…
Treblinka. “He killed a heavily wounded Jew with a rifle”
On the hot day of August 2, 1943, several hundred prisoners fled the Treblinka death camp. The camp secret resistance had been operating for several…