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⭐ We are moving! The POLIN Museum team is excited to announce that we’re combining our English and Polish pages on Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN.

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign is just days away! We are grateful and honored to partner again with World Jewish Congress to bring daffodils to institutions and organization around the globe.

On April 19th pin on a daffodil, take a selfie, and share it on social media using the hashtag .

Auschwitz survivor Marian Turski is one of Poland's most vocal Holocaust survivors. Join WJC and the POLIN museum (Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN) this year to commemorate the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19. Pin on a daffodil, take a selfie, and share it on social media using the hashtag .

Why the daffodil? Each year in April, Marek Edelman, who was the last surviving commander of the Uprising, received a bouquet of yellow flowers from an anonymous person, and would lay them at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes. Every year, more and more people began to pay homage with yellow daffodils in their hands.

Together .

The student rally held at the University of Warsaw 56 years ago, on 8 March 1968, and brutally suppressed by the communist authorities turned out to be a spark that ignited one of the most complex socio-political crises in the postwar history of Poland.

The crisis resulted in the pacification of Polish intellectual life and in forced migration of 13,000 Polish Jews who had fallen victim of a brutal antisemitic campaign launched by the authorities.

You will find more information on March '68 (including personal stories of emigrees) on our special website: https://bit.ly/3V65KLK

📍 We have been cooperating with the Polish police force for years, teaching officers how to fight antisemitism and hate crimes. Our educators have offered dozens of workshops (including special courses in police academies) and even published a handbook for law enforcement officers on how to work together with Jewish communities.

📍 We are glad to participate in yet another training, this time with members of anti-conflict team of the city of Poznań with Roman Kuster, deputy commissioner of Polish police present.

Picture: Polska Policja

⚠️ Only until February 29th you can submit abstracts for our international conference "From Shtetl to Post – Jewish Town" (September 8-10, 2024). ⚠️

The conference will explore how shtetls like Opatów became post-Jewish towns and how their Jewish communities are remembered by those who once lived there and by those who live there today.

👉 More information on our website: https://bit.ly/formularz_sztetle

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Conference co-organizers: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Tel Aviv University | אוניברסיטת תל-אביב , YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Picture: A key from the synagogue in Opatów, photo credit: Natalia Romik.

🎉 Biz 120, Mr. Lauder!

Yesterday we marked 80th birthday of Ronald S. Lauder, the first Donor of the POLIN Museum, international philanthropist, investor, art collector and since 2007, president of the World Jewish Congress.

He has been actively supporting the activities of the Museum for years, since 2020 as a member of the Museum Council.

🎉 The entire POLIN Museum team wishes Mr. Lauder the strength, health and energy for his work for Jewish life in Poland and around the world.

If you have heard about Irena Sendler, and the work she and her colleagues accomplished during the Holocaust. Then read this quick story about an , Anna Stupnicka-Bando, whose birthday is today, and was born in 1929 in Końskie, Poland.

During World War II she lived with her mother, Janina Stupnicka in the Żoliborz district of Warsaw. During the occupation, Anna Stupnicka-Bando's mother was responsible for keeping registration books and house administration, which gave her free entry to the Warsaw ghetto. In the winter of 1941, Anna and her mother led a Jewish girl named Liliana Alter, the daughter of Bund activist Hilary Alter out of the ghetto. Liliana remained with Ania and her mother for the duration of the war. Anna Stupnicka-Bando also worked as a nurse, organizing one of the insurgent medical points. After the end of the uprising, the whole family, together with Liliana, ended up in a transit camp in Pruszków. Anna Stupnicka-Bando became a neurologist, and like her mother, Janina Stupnicka, she was awarded the medal of the Righteous.

👉Read more at 's Polish Righteous website:
https://sprawiedliwi.org.pl/en/stories-of-rescue/the-story-of-the-stupnicki-family

(📷Pictures provided by the archive of Anna Stupnicka-Bando. 1st picture is of Anna as a young woman. The second is a more recent photo of her. The black and white photo of two girls is Liliana and Anna. Final picture is of Ania's mom, Janina Stupnicka).