Yom HaShoah 2023

 Yesterday, on Yom HaShoah, at the Holon cemetery.

Thank you Moshe!

Before Yom HaShoah

 Before Yom HaShoah and the anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, we remember the victims of the Sokołów Ghetto. The deaths of mothers who voluntarily went to the gas chambers with their children to make them less afraid is no less heroic than the deaths of the ghetto fighters. They are all heroes and we will remember them all.

The photo was taken by a German soldier in the ghetto in Sokołów, it comes from the collection of Łukasz Biedka.

Pogrom of 1937 in Sokolow

 Let's not forget about the pogrom of 1937 in Sokolow.

"On Thursday, April 1, 1937, during Pesach, as always, there was a market day in the town. Organized groups armed with sticks came to the town's center and attacked the Jewish stalls. The Endeks overturned the stalls, destroyed the goods, beat the traders. When they had done their job, they moved towards the Jewish streets, where they broke windows in houses and beat everyone with iron rods and sticks. 20 Jews were beaten and wounded. Some of them were seriously injured. Approx. 10 Jewish stalls were demolished. About 600 windows were broken. 

The atmosphere in the town after the events of that bloody Thursday was tense. The Jewish community lived in fear. People were afraid to walk the streets at night".

Source: YIVO Archive

About our work

 Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland writes about our work in their 2022 report. The Association supported this project from the start.

https://szih.org.pl/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SZIH-%E2%80%93-Report-2022-%E2%80%93-web_en.pdf