Historical columns

Brief History of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

On the night of 18-19 April 1943, on Passover eve, the Warsaw Ghetto was surrounded by German military police and Blue Police. The next morning, several hundred soldiers of the army and police as well as for

“Three Days, not Longer.” The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

In January 1943, in connection with the plans of the Germans to deport a group of Jews considered no longer fit for work to the extermination camp in Treblinka, the first armed uprising

Women in the context of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

19 April marks the 77th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. We would like to invite you to read a column by Paweł Wieczorek (PhD) in honour of the female fighters, mothers,

The Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The first half of May 1943. The battles – if we give such term to the clash of the mighty German forces with hopelessly armed Jewish guerrillas – had already been fought for the second week.

Koza, part 1: The story of Yitzhak Suknik

This is the story of Yitzhak Suknik who fought and died in the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of more than six hundred ghettos set up by the Germans on the occupied Polish soil.

Koza, part 2: no longer sheep, but fighters

Yitzhak Suknik soon became an invaluable member of the Jewish Fighting Organisation, the ZOB.

Koza, part 3: To pick the time and place of our deaths

After the 18th January the inhabitants of the Ghetto were under no illusions: they were aware the Germans’ attempt to clear the Ghetto had suffered a temporary setback. They were in no doubt they’d return.

Sefer Falenic

We present the first part of the translation of Sefer Falenic – a book of memory of Falenice Jews, edited by Dawid Sztokfisz, published by the Falenica Association in Tel Aviv in 1967.