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New chapter in ‘lost Jewish library mystery’ as books returned to Lublin from Berlin

In 1930, the Lublin School of Sages was opened in Lublin. It was the birthchild of Rabbi Meir Shapiro (pictured) and at the time it was the largest and most modern Yeshiva in the world to educate future generations of rabbis. Press materials

The religious books come from the original collection in the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva which was once the largest Talmudic school in the world. The fate of the library is one of the biggest wartime mysteries of Lublin.

Tamara de Lempicka’s work ‘more relevant than ever’ says artist’s great-granddaughter on eve of ‘homecoming’ exhibition

Initially intended to showcase 60 of the artist’s paintings, Poland’s first ever monographic exhibition of her work entitled “Tamara de Lempicka. A Woman on a Journey”, has taken on a new relevancy in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

WWII artefacts found in hidden bunker at Warsaw Ghetto building site secretly ‘smuggled’ out of Poland

The director of the Shem Olam Institute in Israel which took the artefacts said: “The task of transferring the tefillin was done secretly but under the noses of the authorities.” Warsaw City Hall says it is now investigating and added it was “a crime” to not report valuable and historical items found at construction sites.

Stunning app launches to commemorate lesser-known side of Poland’s Jewish history

Built by the Galicia Jewish Museum, the free photography app showcases rare snapshots of Jewish life beyond the parameters of the Holocaust.

Lodz marks international Roma and Sinti Genocide Remembrance Day

Lodz in central Poland on Monday marked the International Roma and Sinti Genocide Remembrance Day in the city's World War Two Jewish ghetto, better known as the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Over 5,000 city's inhabitants were killed by the Germans.

First Jewish grammar school since 1968 to open in Warsaw

On September 1 the Lauder-Morasha School Complex in Warsaw, the first group of Jewish schools founded in post-communist Poland, will open a grammar school. Its patron will be Zuzanna Ginczanka, a Polish-Jewish poet killed by the Nazis in 1944.

Łódź marks Roma camp liquidation in wartime ghetto

Łódź in central Poland on Tuesday marked the 78th anniversary of the closure of a Roma camp in the city's World War Two Jewish ghetto, better known as the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Its inhabitants were killed by the Nazis in a death camp in western Poland.

Jewish residents of southern Poland to be commemorated

As part of the project entitled People not Numbers, Jewish residents of Czarny Dunajec, southern Poland, and other localities who were murdered during WWII, will be commemorated with a monument inscribed with their names.

FestivALT alternative Jewish festival to open in Krakow in June

The third FestivALT festival featuring independent presentations of Jewish art will run from June 21 to 30 in the southern Polish city of Krakow. Shows, concerts, happenings and unconventional sights are all planned in the former Jewish quarter of Kazimierz.

Un-forgetting Maria Hirszbein: Poland’s first female film producer was ‘pioneering and trailblazing’

Following her mysterious death in WWII, Maria Hirszbein fell into obscurity. Now a screening of her pre-war films at this year’s Singer’s Warsaw Festival will commemorate the forgotten heroine of Polish cinema.

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