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A meeting with Jerzy Rawicki, a Holocaust survivor

Added 2013-06-18

The Museum of the History of Polish Jews invites you to the meeting with Jerry Rawicki, Holocaust Survivor. The event will take place on...

A lecture by Rabbi Irving Greenberg

Added 2013-06-17

The Polish Council of Christians and Jews and the Club of Catholic Intellectuals in Warsaw (KIK) have the pleasure of inviting you to Rabbi Irving...

Headstones from Brzeziny will go to the cemetery

Added 2013-06-17

Having reached an agreement with the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage (FODŻ), the Brzeziny Town Hall will restore a...

A film screening about the tragic life history of the Ulmas from Markowa

Added 2013-06-17

Fundacja Nowych Ujęć has the pleasure of inviting you to a meeting about the Ulmas from Markowa, near Rzeszów. The screening and the...

The opening of the Educational and Museum Centre in Chmielnik

Added 2013-06-14

This Saturday, June 15th, Ośrodek Edukacyjno-Muzealny „Świętokrzyski Sztetl” (Świętokrzyski Shtetl Educational & Museum...

A new permanent exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Added 2013-06-14

On 13 June in block 27 of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, a new national exhibition entitled “Shoah” was opened. It shows the...

A talk about former Praga Jewish residents

Added 2013-06-14

As part of the Night of Prague, one of Warsaw districts, the Zmiana Foundation invites you to a meeting, which will take place at 4 pm, on...

On the trail of Jewish history and culture in the Mazowsze region

Added 2013-06-14

The Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Welocypedy.pl association invite you to a bike ride on the trail of Jewish culture and...

The exhibition ‘Children of Eretz Israel’ at the Krakow Synagogue

Added 2013-06-13

This Sunday, June 30th, 2013, the High Synagogue in Krakow will inaugurate Agnieszka Traczewska’s photo exhibition ‘Dzieci Erec...

A screening of the movie ‘Saved by Deportation. The Unknown History of Polish Jews’

Added 2013-06-13

Kresy-Syberia Foundation and Przystanek Historia IPN have the pleasure of inviting you to the screening of the movie entitled ‘Saved by...

Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow

Added 2013-06-13

June 28th, 2013, marks the opening of the Jewish Culture Festival, which will last until July 7th. The Kazimierz Jewish district will...

Katarzyna Zimmerer talks about the Jewish district in Krakow

Added 2013-06-12

JCC Krakow invites you to Katarzyna Zimmerer’s lecture entitled ‘Dzielnica 1941-1943’, which will take place at 12 noon, on June 16,...

The winners of the ‘Jews in Our Memory’ competition

Added 2013-06-12

The winners of the 8th edition of the ‘History and Life’ nationwide competition for higher school students have been announced. This...

An extraordinary announcement at railway stations in Poland

Added 2013-06-12

This Friday, passengers at thirteen railway stations throughout Poland will hear an announcement reminding them about the first shipment...

A walking tour on the trail of Sokołów Jews

Added 2013-06-11

Students from the Salesian Senior- and High School have the pleasure of inviting you to a walking tour on the trail of places relating to...

A synagogue in Wielke Oczy finally restored

Added 2013-06-11

The restoration works of the Wielkie Oczy synagogue, which is over one hundred years old, have finally come to an end. June 16th, 3 pm,...

A competition to promote Julian Tuwim’s writings

Added 2013-06-10

This year marks the Year of Julian Tuwim. Therefore, the Polish Book Institute has announced a competition to promote the ideologies and...

The inauguration of the Jan Karski bench

Added 2013-06-10

Tomorrow, June 11th, at 3 pm, the ceremony of unveiling the bench in memory of Jan Karski will be held at the square by the Museum of the...

Gil Cohen-Magen’s photo exhibition ‘In Hasidic circles’

Added 2013-06-10

On 31 August 2013, the Galicia Jewish Museum will inaugurate an ‘In Hasidic Circles’ photo exhibition, which will run until August...

7@nite. Night of the Synagogues

Added 2013-06-07

This Saturday, the third edition of the ‘7@nite. Night of the Synagogues’ will take place in Kraków. On this night, Kraków...

The winners of the ‘Preserving Memory’ project

Added 2013-06-07

The winners of the 16th edition of the ‘Preserving Memory’ project have been announced. The awarding ceremony will take place in the...

The 6th edition of the ‘Zachor – Colour and Sound’ Jewish Cultural Festival

Added 2013-06-07

The Poland-Israel Centre for Citizenship Education and the Jewish Religious Community in Warsaw invite you to the 6th edition of the...

The 14th edition of the Jewish Cultural Days in Gdańsk

Added 2013-06-06

From June 9-10th, 2013, Gdańsk will stage the 14th edition of the Jewish cultural festival. The event will begin on Sunday, 3 pm, in the...

A new major on Jewish culture in Warsaw

Added 2013-06-06

The Academy of Theology in Warsaw has launched a new major ‘Animacja społeczna – judaizm i kultura żydowska na ziemiach polskich’,...

A meeting with Nika Kohn Fleissing, a Holocaust survivor

Added 2013-06-06

This Friday, Beit Warszawa will stage a meeting with Nika Kohn Fleissig, the protagonist of the book entitled ‘Miracle to Miracle: A...

A new book by Piotr Paziński

Added 2013-06-05

Several days ago, the most recent book by Piotr Paziński, ‘Ptasie ulice’, was released. Today, at 19 o’clock, Stacja Muranów will...

A discovery in the former Sobibór death camp

Added 2013-06-05

During excavation works in the former Nazi extermination camp in Sobibór, archaeologists discovered a tunnel which might have been dug by...

Let’s restore the Jewish cemetery in Pruszków

Added 2013-06-05

Next Monday, June 10th, a voluntary action to restore the Jewish cemetery in Pruszków will take place in Pruszków. The...

A meeting about the future of the former Płaszów concentration camp

Added 2013-06-04

The Museum of the History of Kraków invites you to the Eagle Pharmacy (18 Bohaterów Getta square) to a meeting about the future of the...

A Polish-German seminar ‘Sinti and Roma – the past and the presence'

Added 2013-06-04

The International Youth Meeting Centre in Oświęcim, the Roma Association in Poland and Alternatives Jugendzentrum Dessau...

The Science Picnic with the Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Added 2013-06-03

On Saturday, June 15th, the National Football Stadium in Warsaw will stage the 17th edition of the Science Picnic by Polish Radio and...

A meeting with Prof. Marian Fuks and with Joseph Malovany

Added 2013-06-03

On Wednesday, June 12th, 7 pm, the Jewish Theatre in Warsaw will stage another meeting with Marian Fuks. The meeting will be attended by...

Bones in the cemetery in Skoki

Added 2013-06-03

The Virtual Shtetl portal has been notified about bones lying in the Jewish cemetery in Skoki (Wągrowiecki district). One of the locals...

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