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75th anniversary of the uprising in the Białystok ghetto

We invite to participate in the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the Białystok Ghetto Uprising. August 16-19, 2018 Bialystok Free entrance More information at the link: https://www.facebook.com...

76th anniversary of the extermination of the ghettos in Otwock, Falenica and Rembertów

Otwock August 19, 2018 (Sunday), at 19.00 March of remembrance and prayer on the 76th anniversary of the Holocaust of Otwock Jews Falenica August 20, 2018 (Monday), at 19.00 August 23, 2018 (Thursday), at 19.00 Concert of Maniuchy and Ksawery The duo will perform: Maniucha Bikont...

A group of volunteers from around the world are doing work at the Jewish cemetery at Okopowa

A group of volunteers from around the world are doing work at the Jewish cemetery at Okopowa. The job consists mainly of clearing and cutting the most overgrown with vegetation parts of the cemetery, i.e. picking weeds, removing broken tree branches. Volunteers from the Czech Republic, Russia...

77th Anniversary of the Jedwabne Pogrom

10 July 2018. 77th Anniversary of the Jedwabne Pogrom 11.00 am prayer at the monument in Jedwabne

March of Remembrance on July 22nd

In this March Remembrance March 22nd, we commemorate the memory of Szmul Zygielbojm, who after many months of alerting Western public opinion about the mass murder of Jews in occupied Poland, in the opposition to the silence of the world, committed suicide.

The President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda signed the adopted amendment to the Act concerning the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN)

In our opinion, the regulations introduced at the beginning of this year and repealed on 28 June 2018 could result in restricting the freedom of speech, the freedom of academic research, the testimony and remembrance of the Holocaust. Criminal liability could have been imposed on people who...

Bialystok. Commemoration for the victims of burning at the Great Synagogue

On June 27, the memory of the victims of the tragic event of 1941 had been commemorated. 77 years ago German Nazis set fire on the Great Synagogue of Białystok, which burnt together with Jewish men and boys. in it locked inside.

Letter from the Polish Ambassador in Moscow to Rabbi Stas Wojciechowicz

Anna Chipczyńska, Vice-president the Board of the Jewish Community of Warsaw, today part in a meeting devoted to the security of the Jewish community

Addressing the security needs of Jewish communities was the focus of an event co-organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, in co-operation with the Interior Ministry of the Slovak...