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Brussels / The Hague. TISH Festival wins!
30th June 2022
European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2022.
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21.12.2015 – Volhynia Barracks – before Polin Musem was built
1st June 2022
Courtesy of Warsaw lovers’ “Kierunkowy 22” profile (https://www.facebook.com/Kierunkowy22/), and thanks to the consent of Ms. Irina Hynes and ...
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Warsaw. Nonviolent Communication Approach in Adult Education in Historical Museums and Memorial Sites – International Project of the POLIN Museum
4th May 2022
The POLIN Museum in cooperation with partners from France, Latvia and North Macedonia is implementing a project under the Erasmus + Program.
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About the project
Shtetl became a symbol of Jewish life before the Holocaust. The clusters of wooden houses marked by mezuzahs, shops, schools and synagogues for a busy week resounded with Yiddish so that on Friday evening the inhabitants could celebrate the Sabbath, engulfing in the smell of kugel and cholent and in the sounds of niguns. By writing down their history in the Virtual Shtetl we want to pay homage to the constellations of Jewish towns in the lands of the former Polish Commonwealth.
On 28 May1922, Józef Klotz scored the first goal in the history of Polish national futball team.
Read about Jewish footballer who became part of the history of Polish football.
Roza Hermanowa: two-time Polish champion in women's chess
Ghetto surviver; devoted her life to healing people and chess.
Briliant mathematician from Lviv
Stanisław Ulam; "I'm still thirteen years old and fell asleep reading a book by Jules Verne or H.G. Welles"