Warsaw Ghetto Museum
[2] The museum's team is working on the creation of a permanent exhibition in the revitalised building of the former Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital, collecting archives, artefacts and testimonies of memory and drawing on the achievements, experience and resources of Polish and foreign institutions that deal with the topic of the ghetto.
At the end of the 1980s, he contacted the President of the Society of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy, prof. Henryk Jabłoński, to entrust the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum to the Nissenbaum Family Foundation.
[7] In October 2018, the local government of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship leased the complex of the Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital to the museum for 30 years.
[8] In November 2020, on the 80th anniversary of the closing of the ghetto borders, the authorities of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship sold the museum building for PLN 22.7 million (the funds for that purpose were provided by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage).
[10] In 2020, the Institute of National Remembrance agreed to hand over the original of the Stroop Report as a deposit for the permanent exhibition at the museum.
[citation needed] The first meeting of the international Warsaw Ghetto Museum Council, that consisted of 15 members, took place on 10 September 2019.
[12] The concept for the visual identity of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum is the result of an international competition organised jointly with the Polish Association of Applied Graphic Designers.
[13] The work on the concept of the permanent exhibition began in 2019, under the supervision of Daniel Blatman, a historian and Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The museum constantly looks for historical artefacts, testimonies and documents relating to the functioning of the Warsaw Ghetto and its commemoration.
1: Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 19 – 28 days, 1943, 1995/2022 – a series of historical photographs made from enlarged archival photos that have been somehow hidden or obscured so that the viewer is not able to see the whole picture at once.
The original recording, re-edited and accompanied by text comments, shows the delusion of the documentary being in fact an instrument of progagadna where the author carefully smuggles the fragments of cruel reality which are visible for Farocki and the audience many years later.
[citation needed] The first international scientific conference organised by the Warsaw Ghetto Museum in cooperation with the Polish Society for Jewish Studies, the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, European Network Remembrance and Solidarity and Touro College in Berlin took place on 18–19 November 2019.
[28] In October 2021, the museum, in cooperation with the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities, performed excavations at the northern border of the Krasiński Garden, on the western side of the pre-war axis of Wałowa Street.
In the summer of 2022, the museum, in cooperation with Christopher Newport University and the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities, began excavations and archaeological research in Muranów, on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto.
[32] The conference was held as part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of Operation Reinhardt, which was carried out by Nazi Germany in the years 1942-1943, on the territory of the General Government and the Białystok District.
[citation needed] The classes organised by the museum concern both the religion, tradition and culture of Polish Jews, as well as the history of the Warsaw Ghetto and the everyday life of people forced to live there.
[41] As part of the collaboration with the Polish Underground State Foundation, an educational guide related to the history of the Jews from Warsaw was produced in 2019.
[43] Another project implemented as part of the "Niepodległa" Multi-Annual Programme was entitled: "The image of the Jewish community in the eyes of their neighbours".
This time, the residents of Warsaw, Łódź, Vilnius, Novogrudok, Oświęcim, Mińsk Mazowiecki, Tykocin and Bliżyn shared their memories.
The project is an artistic interpretation of four publications: "Shielding the flame" (Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem) by Hanna Krall, "Conversations with an executioner" by Kazimierz Moczarski, "Campo di Fiori" by Czesław Miłosz and "Memories.
As part of a project for schools located on the territory of the former Warsaw Ghetto, the motto of which was: "What does it mean – what might it mean for our future – that we live around the place of their death?"(J.
The film "Opening the Silence" was produced in cooperation with a high school – XVII Liceum Ogólnokształcące z Oddziałami Dwujęzycznymi im.
The following publications have been published to date: Apart from the above, the following works have been published with the collaboration of the museum: The Warsaw Ghetto Museum undertakes numerous activities to commemorate the victims of wartime terror, e.g. by organizing events to restore the memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Poland.
[55] In 2022, the museum was one of the co-organisers of a programme to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the German Nazi Operation Reinhardt, co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and under the honorary patronage of Polish President Andrzej Duda.
[56] The programme included scientific conferences and seminars, outdoor exhibitions and educational meetings for secondary school students.
[58] In July 2022, to commemorate the victims of Operation Reinhardt, a monument by Jerzy Kalina, "The Matzevah of Memory",[59] was unveiled in Józefów Biłgorajski.
In October 2022, the museum launched an initiative to collect signatures to support giving the name of the Jewish Military Union to the junction of Gen. W. Anders and Stawki streets in Warsaw.
