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Jewish Art Gallery consists of a selection of finest paintings and sculptures in ZIH's holdings, such as "Old Man" by Maurycy Gottlieb, "Portrait of Dr. Kupczyk" by Leopold Gottlieb, Samuel Hirszenberg's "Artist with His Muse", Jan Gotard's "Cinderella", numerous works of Artur Markowicz and Maurycy Trebacz. The highlights of a synagogue interior area beautiful wooden aron-ha-kodesh from a townlet in the warsaw region, parokhets and Torah dresses being a tragic heritage of the Greek Jews murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.

Warsaw Ghetto Exhibition shows the life of its inhabitants, starting with the early anti-Jewish regulations issued by the German administration, through terrible living conditions, to the mass murder and the ultimate armed struggle against the German Nazi oppressors. Central to this exhibition are the materials that we owe to the ghetto inmates themselves, gathered to be known as the Ringelblum Archive. The story of Warsaw Jews is also presented in the documentary film produced for ZIH (in any of four versions: Polish, English, German or Hebrew).

Jewish Artists in Warsaw, 1918-1939
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Henryk Kuna (1883-1945), Bust of Felicja Winawer (plaster)
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