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President of the Republic of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, at the groundbreaking ceremony for the POLIN Museum, 26 June 2007. The idea for creating a major new museum in Warsaw dedicated to the history of Polish Jews was initiated in 1995 by the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland. [2]
The Jewish Historical Institute (Polish: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny or ŻIH; Yiddish: ייִדישער היסטאָרישער אינסטיטוט), also known as the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, is a public cultural and research institution in Warsaw, Poland, chiefly dealing with the history of Jews in Poland and Jewish culture.
The Warsaw Ghetto Museum is a patron of the March of Remembrance organised by the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute to commemorate the victims of Grossaktion Warsaw. [ 52 ] The museum co-organised the X and XI Holocaust Remembrance Day in Łódź; it took an active part in organising workshops for schoolchildren and participated in ...
The Great Synagogue was built by the Warsaw's Jewish community between 1875 and 1878 at Tłomackie street, in the south-eastern tip of the district in which the Jews were allowed to settle by the Russian Imperial authorities of Congress Poland. The main architect was Leandro Marconi.
The Warsaw Ghetto (German: Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, ' Jewish Residential District in Warsaw '; Polish: getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust.
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Ruins of the ghetto were placed at the bottom of the monument, on the surface of which are photographs of Jewish children who died during World War II. There is a plaque underneath with the following inscription in Polish, Hebrew and English: To the memory of one million Jewish children murdered by German barbarians 1939-1945 .