The year 2024 marks the thirteenth edition of the March of Remembrance, in which we will walk the streets of Warsaw to commemorate the victims of the Great Liquidation Action in the Warsaw ghetto on its 82nd anniversary.

On June 26, 1943, Rywka Glanc, a fighter of the Jewish resistance movement called “mother of the Częstochowa ghetto”, was killed by Germans after she escaped from the so-called "Small Ghetto" in Częstochowa.

At the conclusion of the study of old Hebrew prints in the collections of the Jewish Historical Institute, we were met with a truly sensational surprise. One of the final books waiting to be processed and registered in the Aleph library system turned out to be the oldest print in the collection – an incunabulum printed in Italy in 1488.

On May 26, 1886, Stefania Wilczyńska was born, an educator who, together with Janusz Korczak, ran the Orphans' Home at 92 Krochmalna Street in Warsaw, and in 1942 she accompanied children on their last journey to the Treblinka extermination camp.

Tonight the holiday of Pesach begins. This is the most important and oldest Jewish holiday. It commemorates the Israelites' exit from Egyptian captivity and is celebrated every year from the 15th to the 22nd of the month of Nissan.

81 years ago, on April 19, 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. It was the largest act of armed Jewish resistance during World War II and the first urban uprising against the Germans in occupied Europe.

„My dream has come true. Jewish self-defense in the ghetto was a fact. Jewish armed resistance and vengeance have become reality. I was a witness of great, heroic struggle of Jewish fighters”, wrote Mordechaj Anielewicz on 23 April 1943 to Icchak Cukierman, responsible for contact with Polish underground, who remained outside of the Warsaw Ghetto at that time.

From November 10, 2023, we invite you to see the new temporary exhibition, "Minor Remnants from Solna Street. Isaac Celnikier and the Holocaust Experience"!