POLIN Museum

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.

🌼 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

🗓️ 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.

🇨🇦 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.

🟨 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!