On January 27th, the Internationa Holocaust Remembrance Day, Professor Feliks Tych, historian and former director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, has been invited to deliver a speech at the German Parliament. January 27 was established the Remembrance Day on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz German Nazi concentration and death camp. Following his lecture Professor Tych with the President of the Budestag are holding a two hour workshop for a group of young students who has just visited ZIH.

The other speaker at the ceremony is Shimon Peres, the President of the State of Israel.

Gallery of Jewish is closed January 25th through February 7th, due to the theater production at ZIH. We apologie for the inconvenience

Center for Holocaust Research (Warsaw University) has launched their unique Database about the Warsaw Ghetto, accessible since February 12 at the web address: warszawa.getto.pl

We recommend the newly published book by Jan Jagielski Remnants of the Warsaw Ghetto.

The exhibition about Polish Jews

THEY CAME TO STAY

will be opened at the European Parliament in Brussels on April 1, 2009

The exhibition has been prepared by the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute with the TP Group Foundation

On Thursday, March 19, a ceremony in honor of the Righteous Among the Nations was held in Warsaw.

The medals and diploms were awarded to the late Wanda Dewiz, the late Aniela and Gerwazy Kotlewski, and the late Amelia and Henryk Szpakowski, and their son, Henryk Szpakowski Jr. The ceremony was attended by the family members of the Righteous and the survivors they had saved, with their families.The concert of the Hadarei Ron choir under the director Avi Faintoch crowned the occasion.