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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Warsaw Ghetto set ablaze by the SS following the prisoner uprising in April 1943 (Z. L. Grzywaczewski / from the family archive of Maciej Grzywaczewski, POLIN Museum)
January 17, 2023, 2:22 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 17: A firefighter’s haunting view of Warsaw Ghetto’s destruction
Political correspondents Tal Schneider and Carrie Keller-Lynn on judicial overhaul ripples; awareness of ‘lost’ Uighurs in China; and what was found in a Polish firefighter’s attic
By ToI Staff
Negatives of photos taken by Polish firefighter Z. L. Grzywaczewski in 1943 (Maciek Jazwiecki/Polin Museum)
January 17, 2023, 9:51 am
21 never-published photos of Warsaw Ghetto Revolt’s aftermath found in Poland attic
Uncovered in dusty boxes, pictures were taken clandestinely by a Polish firefighter in 1943 as he protected Aryan Warsaw from flames engulfing the ghetto
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: Jews from Hungary arriving at Auschwitz in May of 1944, part of 'The Auschwitz Album' series of photographs. Most of these Jews were murdered later that day. (public domain)
June 26, 2022, 3:38 pm
Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition
While visiting the POLIN museum in 2016, Daniel Patt realized he could be walking by his own relatives without knowing it, so he designed a platform ‘From Numbers to Names’
By Yaakov Schwartz
Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal poses in front of one of his art works on display in a new exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw, Poland, on June 15, 2021. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
June 17, 2021, 6:38 pm
Top Polish artist confronts country’s Holocaust past in Jewish museum exhibit
Wilhem Sasnal says works needed because parts of Poland’s society refuse to acknowledge that, though occupied by Nazis, there were also Poles who joined in the crimes
By Vanessa Gera
The new director of Poland's landmark POLIN museum of Jewish history, Zygmunt Stepinski, at the museum in Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 28, 2020. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 29, 2020, 1:05 am
New director of Poland’s Jewish museum vows independence
After a year-long leadership stalemate with government, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews can carry on with its mission, says new head Zygmunt Stepinski
By AP
People visit the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 12, 2020. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 14, 2020, 7:19 pm
Polish government accepts new Jewish museum chief, ending yearlong standoff
Authorities agree to former deputy director of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in a compromise, after refusing to re-appoint director for alleged political bias
By Vanessa Gera
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (NYU)
February 12, 2020, 11:12 pm
Scholar who helped establish Polish Jewish museum wins Dan David Prize
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett honored alongside Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch III
By AP
People walk through a wooden 17th century synagogue once located in Gwozdziec, a formerly Polish town now in Ukraine, at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jew in Warsaw, Poland, October 21, 2014. (Czarek Sokolowski/Associated Press)
February 12, 2020, 12:41 pm
To break Warsaw Jewish museum impasse, elected director agrees to give up post
Dariusz Stola ran afoul of Polish authorities for criticizing their policies, including controversial Holocaust speech law; says willing to cede his right to head POLIN institution
By Vanessa Gera
In this July 16, 2019 file photo people pass the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski/file)
January 30, 2020, 7:00 pm
Poland urged to end ‘damaging’ impasse at Jewish museum
Warsaw mayor and head of Jewish historical association call on culture minister to confirm former director Dariusz Stola as head of POLIN museum for 2nd five-year term
By Vanessa Gera
The POLIN Museum of Jewish History in Warsaw, Poland, opened in 2014 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
July 16, 2019, 9:30 pm
Fearing for its future, donors suspend funds for Poland’s Jewish museum
Contributions to renowned POLIN museum frozen over concerns about government’s failure to renew term of incumbent director
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, right, and Dariusz Stola, then director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, visit the museum in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday March 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
May 12, 2019, 3:02 am
Incumbent director of Polish Jewish museum wins backing to stay in job
Panel supports Dariusz Stola, who criticized Holocaust law, to continue to lead Polin history museum, but government has last say
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A Los Angeles couple, Craig Gilmore, left, and David Crocker, pose in front of a 17th painting, "Portrait of a Lady" by the Flemish artist Melchior Geldorp at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, April 5, 2019. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
May 5, 2019, 5:07 pm
Looted Nazi art and LGBT rights merge in recovery of Polish painting
After their prized 17th-century portrait is revealed to have been stolen from Poland’s National Museum, Los Angles same-sex couple turns setback into equality campaign
By Vanessa Gera
The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 21, 2019, 10:28 am
Poland: Ousting Jewish museum head who criticized Holocaust law ‘not political’
Online petition claims government not renewing Dariusz Stola’s contract at end of his 5-year term is a ‘political decision’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The first 'Oneg Shabbat' archive cache is recovered from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, September 1946. (public domain)
December 11, 2018, 9:15 pm
Can we handle the uncomfortable truths unearthed in WWII’s Oneg Shabbat archive?
A $2-million pledge from Taube Philanthropies promises to fix ‘glaring omissions’ at National WWII Museum and grow distance-learning for Holocaust-related programs
By Matt Lebovic
A Holocaust memorial created in the 'sauna' facility of the former German Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland, with photographs of people deported there, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
May 31, 2018, 3:58 am
Defending Auschwitz selfies, a new book unpacks Holocaust tourism
While commemorating the genocide perpetuated by the Nazis, visitors to memorial sites are increasingly placing themselves in the frame
By Matt Lebovic
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