POLIN Museum

30/06/2024

⭐ We are moving! The POLIN Museum team is excited to announce that we’re combining our English and Polish pages on Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN.

Please follow the link to join our new community and continue seeing posts on Museum events, exhibitions, and collections. Selected posts will be available in bilingual version, for others, you can take advantage of Facebook's automatic translation feature.

🔗 Don't forget to subscribe to our newsletter for exclusive updates on Museum programs. We look forward to continuing this journey with you!

https://polin.pl/en/newsletter

15/05/2024

🗓️ On Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 16:00 join us and Amis Européens du Musée d'Histoire des Juifs de Pologne - AEMJP for a special screening of "Proof of Identity" (2021) by Mikołaj Grynberg, followed by a disscussion.

📌 Wiener Library Hall, in Sourasky Central Library, Tel Aviv University Campus

Proof of Identity (Dowód tożsamości) is an original record of touching conversations with representatives of various generations of Polish Jews.

19/04/2024

Today marks the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

By wearing a paper daffodil on that day, we show that we remember together about those who fought in the Uprising, but also about ca 50,000 civilians who hid in the ghetto ruins in 1943.

18/04/2024

🌼 The 81st anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is tomorrow, on April 19, but already today you can join us for a special movie screening, part of our .

"Cywia and Rachela. They Fought in the Warsaw Ghetto" is a documentary by Polish-French film director Rafael Lewandowski, that tells the story of two remarkable women, survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto, Cywia Lubetkin and Rachela Auerbach.

Rachela Auerbach is also one of the heroes of a short video titled "Memory of Those Who Died Lives in Me", which will premier on April 19 at 10AM on our YouTube channel.

👉 Read more about this year's program and join us in :
https://bit.ly/WGUC2024

12/04/2024

🗓️ Join us this Sunday April 14 at 6 PM for the last meeting of a three-part virtual series 'Thou Shalt Not Remain Silent' at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue.

🗨️ This time Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Dr. Natalia Romik will discuss how once-vibrant Jewish communities are remembered and contested today. How do the Polish residents of former shtetls confront the Jewish past of their towns?

👇 REGISTER: https://tinyurl.com/24kx56u7

This program is sponsored by the Antisemitism Task Force of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and POLIN Museum.

11/04/2024

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign is just days away! We are grateful and honored to partner again with World Jewish Congress to bring daffodils to institutions and organization around the globe.

On April 19th pin on a daffodil, take a selfie, and share it on social media using the hashtag .

Auschwitz survivor Marian Turski is one of Poland's most vocal Holocaust survivors. Join WJC and the POLIN museum (Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN) this year to commemorate the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19. Pin on a daffodil, take a selfie, and share it on social media using the hashtag .

Why the daffodil? Each year in April, Marek Edelman, who was the last surviving commander of the Uprising, received a bouquet of yellow flowers from an anonymous person, and would lay them at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes. Every year, more and more people began to pay homage with yellow daffodils in their hands.

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03/04/2024

🇨🇦 What a week it has been! Thank you Toronto!

🙏 Together with our partners from Toronto Holocaust Museum, Koffler Arts, Ashkenaz Festival with support from York University, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, Culture.pl and Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Toronto we co-hosted a series of events in Toronto.

🎨 This town holds particular significance for us, as it was where Mayer Kirshenblatt spent most of his life and painted his memories of Opatów, Poland. His works will be the centerpiece of our upcoming exhibition "(post)JEWISH… Shtetl Opatów Through the Eyes of Mayer Kirshenblatt", opening on May 17.

20/03/2024

👉 If you happen to be in Toronto next Wednesday, March 27, join us and Toronto Holocaust Museum for an illustrated lecture by Natalia Romik on Mayer Kirshenblatt!

📌 Millions of Jews in Eastern Europe once lived in towns, shtetlekh, where they created a vibrant Jewish way of life. Today, these shtetlekh are “post-Jewish” towns. Not a single Jew remains. This illustrated lecture juxtaposes the paintings of Toronto artist Mayer Kirshenblatt, who recalls his vivid childhood in Poland before the Holocaust, with the “post-Jewish” town that his birthplace, Opatów (Apt in Yiddish), has become.

📌 Join us for a chance to unpack this unique history through the lens of art and architecture with Dr. Natalia Romik, a public historian, architect, and artist whose work focuses on Jewish memory and Holocaust commemoration in Eastern Europe.

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This event is organized in partnership with the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University.

19/03/2024

🟨 A month from now, on April 19, we will be marking the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. That day, hundreds of POLIN Museum volunteers will break the record of two million paper daffodils handed out to people in Warsaw and other locations around the globe.

🟨 Our Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign has become one of the most important campaigns aimed at commemorating Holocaust victims on the continent. So far, close to 25,000 schools and institutions have participated in the project, and in 2023 alone, we reached 60 million views of our campaign-related materials on social media.

Join us on April 19, 2024!

11/03/2024

🇨🇦 Any Torontonians here? In just about two weeks POLIN Museum is coming to your town!

Together with our partners we are excited to present three programs:

🍁 On March 28 at 8 PM international string supergroup Ger Mandolin Orchestra and Polish pianist/composer Marcin Masecki at Glenn Gould Studio will perform "Ger Suite," co-commissioned by Ashkenaz Festival and POLIN Museum. More details here: https://bit.ly/3v8kwam

🍁 On March 27 at 7:30 PM an illustrated talk by Dr. Natalia Romik "From Shtetl to “Post-Jewish Town”: Opatów through the Eyes of Mayer Kirschenblatt" at Leah Posluns Theatre, presented by Toronto Holocaust Museum. More details here: https://bit.ly/3v8F02Q

🍁 On March 26 at 7 PM another illustrated talk by Natalia Romik - "Hideouts: The Architecture of Survival" at Koffler Arts. More details here: https://bit.ly/49MJOKh

📷 Ger Mandolin Orchestra, courtesy of Ashkenaz Festival

08/03/2024

The student rally held at the University of Warsaw 56 years ago, 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.

The crisis resulted in the pacification of Polish intellectual life and in forced migration of 13,000 Polish Jews who had fallen victim of a brutal antisemitic campaign launched by the authorities.

You will find more information on March '68 (including personal stories of emigrees) on our special website: https://bit.ly/3V65KLK

07/03/2024

🇩🇪 This week we were honored to host German Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger MdB.

🗣️ Minister Stark-Watzinger was greeted by the chair of Museum Council Marian Turski, and then visited our award-winning core exhibition, to which the German Federal Government has contributed financially.

Photos by Maciek Jaźwiecki.

01/03/2024

📍 We have been cooperating with the Polish police force for years, teaching officers how to fight antisemitism and hate crimes. Our educators have offered dozens of workshops (including special courses in police academies) and even published a handbook for law enforcement officers on how to work together with Jewish communities.

📍 We are glad to participate in yet another training, this time with members of anti-conflict team of the city of Poznań with Roman Kuster, deputy commissioner of Polish police present.

Picture: Polska Policja

27/02/2024

⚠️ Only until February 29th you can submit abstracts for our international conference "From Shtetl to Post – Jewish Town" (September 8-10, 2024). ⚠️

The conference will explore how shtetls like Opatów became post-Jewish towns and how their Jewish communities are remembered by those who once lived there and by those who live there today.

👉 More information on our website: https://bit.ly/formularz_sztetle

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Conference co-organizers: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Tel Aviv University | אוניברסיטת תל-אביב , YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Picture: A key from the synagogue in Opatów, photo credit: Natalia Romik.

27/02/2024

🎉 Biz 120, Mr. Lauder!

Yesterday we marked 80th birthday of Ronald S. Lauder, the first Donor of the POLIN Museum, international philanthropist, investor, art collector and since 2007, president of the World Jewish Congress.

He has been actively supporting the activities of the Museum for years, since 2020 as a member of the Museum Council.

🎉 The entire POLIN Museum team wishes Mr. Lauder the strength, health and energy for his work for Jewish life in Poland and around the world.

23/02/2024

🎵 This beautiful auditorium of our museum will resound today with the opening concert of the Polin Music Festival 2024, a celebration of Jewish music.

🎵 Among the pieces performed on Friday will be "Tfiles / Prayer," a new work by Alex Weiser—composer, scholar of Yiddish culture, and Director of Public Programs at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Additionally, there will be the Polish premiere of "Halil" (Hebrew for ‘flute’) by Leonard Bernstein.

👉 The POLIN Music Festival will end on Sunday, and you can find more information on concerts and tickets on our website: https://bit.ly/48mF3FP

23/02/2024

If you have heard about Irena Sendler, and the work she and her colleagues accomplished during the Holocaust. Then read this quick story about an , Anna Stupnicka-Bando, whose birthday is today, and was born in 1929 in Końskie, Poland.

During World War II she lived with her mother, Janina Stupnicka in the Żoliborz district of Warsaw. During the occupation, Anna Stupnicka-Bando's mother was responsible for keeping registration books and house administration, which gave her free entry to the Warsaw ghetto. In the winter of 1941, Anna and her mother led a Jewish girl named Liliana Alter, the daughter of Bund activist Hilary Alter out of the ghetto. Liliana remained with Ania and her mother for the duration of the war. Anna Stupnicka-Bando also worked as a nurse, organizing one of the insurgent medical points. After the end of the uprising, the whole family, together with Liliana, ended up in a transit camp in Pruszków. Anna Stupnicka-Bando became a neurologist, and like her mother, Janina Stupnicka, she was awarded the medal of the Righteous.

👉Read more at 's Polish Righteous website:
https://sprawiedliwi.org.pl/en/stories-of-rescue/the-story-of-the-stupnicki-family

(📷Pictures provided by the archive of Anna Stupnicka-Bando. 1st picture is of Anna as a young woman. The second is a more recent photo of her. The black and white photo of two girls is Liliana and Anna. Final picture is of Ania's mom, Janina Stupnicka).