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Warsaw. Accounts of witnesses to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from the oral history collection of the POLIN Museum
14th April 2026
Recollections of Krystyna Budnicka, Halina Ashkenazy-Engelhard, Jerry Rawicki and Janusz Ostrowski about the events of spring 1943.
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Renowned photographer Erwin Szenkelbach passed away in Israel on 7th August, 2025
8th August 2025
On 7th August 2025, Erwin Schenkelbach, an outstanding photographer and a Holocaust survivor, passed away in Herzliya.
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Europeana 2025 - summary
17th June 2025
Europeana 2025 conference „Preserve, Protect, Reuse” is behind us!
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The “Virtual Shtetl” is a portal of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. It is devoted to the preservation of the history and traditions of Polish Jews, as well as the material, spiritual and social culture of Jewish communities, which existed in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Maria Orwid (1930-2009)
17th anniversary of death of the psychiatrist, a pioneer in trauma research.
Mischel-Stuchłowa Helena Regina (1897-1955)
129th anniversary of the birth of the doctor, veteran of the defense of Lwów in 1918, and of the Home Army during World War II.
Hanna Hirszfeld (1884-1964)
62nd anniversary of the death of Professor of Medicine, Paediatrician
