Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 2024: Program
On April 19, join the 12th edition of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising social-educational campaign, and wear a paper daffodil pin to show that we are all #RememberingTogether. Here is what we prepared for you this year.
On 19 April, due to the commemoration of the 81th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign, the Museum will be open from 9AM to 6PM. On that day, admission to the Core Exhibition is free (this does not apply to the tickets purchased online in advance). The last entry to the exhibition at 4PM. Plan your visit →
Program:
"Cywia and Rachela. They Fought in the Warsaw Ghetto" – a special movie screening
A story of two remarkable women, Cywia Lubetkin and Rachela Auerbach, who survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. As part of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign we invite you to a special screening of the movie followed by a discussion with its director, Rafael Lewandowski.
- April 18 (Thursday), 6PM, POLIN Museum Auditorium
- Free tickets available online, download here or pick up from the ticket desk
- Movie subtitled in Polish and English
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Discussion with Rafael Lewandowski will be held in Polish only
"Memory of Those Who Died Lives in Me" – a premiere
This short video tells the story of the three guardians of Jewish memory: Emanuel Ringelblum, founder of the Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, Rachela Auerbach, thanks to whom the first box of the Archive, the most important testimony of the Holocaust, was located, and Marek Edelman, whose gesture of laying yellow flowers in front of the Monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes helped to reestablish memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in postwar Poland.
- April 19 (Friday), 10AM
- Premiere on polin.pl/en and POLIN Museum YouTube channel
- Subtitles in Polish and English
We invite you and your students to join schools around the world in commemorating the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. For curriculum materials, please go to: Educational Resources.
We encourage you to purchase our latest publication titled "What the Others Cannot See. Photographic Testimonies from Both Sides of the Warsaw Ghetto Wall 1943." It combines two albums—one with photos taken by Rudolf Damec, the other with photos by Leszek Zbigniew Grzywaczewski.
It is available for purchase at the POLIN Museum store and online.
