News Archive

21 March was proclaimed the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in 1966 by the United Nations General Assembly.

At dawn of 18 January 1943, German forces entered the Warsaw ghetto and began a round-up of its inhabitants which lasted several days.

Gabriel Narutowicz served as Poland’s first president. However, he’s perhaps best known for the fact that a radical nationalist assassinated him five days after he took office, on December 16, 1922.

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Committee, we present the story of this secret organization and the people who make it up.

On 27th April, Israel will observe its Yom HaShoah national holiday – Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Establishing the birth date of Zuzanna Ginczanka is somewhat problematic—some sources quote 15 March 1917, others quote 9 March 1917 or 22 March 1917.

The student rally held at the University of Warsaw on 8 March 1968 and brutally suppressed by the communist authorities turned out to be a spark that ignited one of the most complex socio-political crises in the postwar history of Poland.

On 4 December 1942, "Żegota" Council to Aid Jews was established—the only state organisation in Europe whose aim was to help Jews.

In December, we celebrate anniversary of granting Nobel Prizes to distinguished figures from within the community of Polish Jews.

The POLIN Museum collection boasts a keepsake that used to belong to Władysław Szpilman who was born 110 years ago—his tie

Reminescing Jakub Goldberg.

On 18 September 1946, ten metal boxes of the Warsaw ghetto archive were retrieved from the ruins of a building at 68 Nowolipki Street

Stanisław Herman Lem b. 12 September 1921 in Lvov – writer, futurologist, literary critic.

Wooden cane with a silver handle, one of Janusz Morgenstern’s keepsakes from his family, is now held by the POLIN Museum collection.

79th anniversary of the Treblinka uprising.

Anniversary of the extermination of the Roma in Auschwitz-Birkenau camp