Qualla: Warsaw Ghetto Museum

Warsaw Ghetto Museum: Introduction

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Jolanta Dyr, CC BY-SA 3.0. The building at the corner of Śliska 51 and Sienna 60 streets is one of the very few that survived. Almost everything else inside the bounds of what had been the Warsaw Ghetto was systematically demolished by the Germans after the 1943 uprising — turned to brick rubble that Jewish prisoners from KL Warschau were forced to clear. The Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital somehow remained. Children of the ghetto were treated there, and many died there, in wards crowded beyond capacity by typhus, tuberculosis, and starvation. In November 2017 the Polish Ministry of Culture announced it would become the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. The decision was a recognition: this place, where ghetto children's lives ended, would become the place where ghetto life itself is remembered.

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Warsaw Ghetto Museum: The Hospital and Its Doctors

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Adrian Grycuk, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl. Bersohn and Bauman opened in 1878, founded by two Jewish philanthropist families to serve the children of Warsaw regardless of religion. By the 1940s it stood inside the walls of the largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe — at its peak holding more than 400,000 Jews crammed into ...

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Warsaw Ghetto Museum: The Mission

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Krzul, CC BY-SA 3.0. Under the supervision of Hebrew University historian Daniel Blatman, the museum's permanent exhibition is being designed around a clear principle: present the broad perspective of Jewish life in Poland during the German occupation, not just its end. The Warsaw Ghetto contained mo...

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Warsaw Ghetto Museum: Excavations in Muranów

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Juwa, CC BY-SA 3.0. In summer 2022, the museum partnered with Christopher Newport University in Virginia and the Pułtusk Academy of Humanities to begin archaeological excavations in the Muranów neighborhood — the postwar housing district built directly on top of the rubble of the ghetto. The dig are...

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Warsaw Ghetto Museum: What the Museum Will Be

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Isee1, CC BY-SA 3.0. Albert Stankowski directed the museum from its founding in 2018 until 2025. His successor, the historian Katarzyna Person, was elected for the 2025-2030 term. The Council is chaired by Colette Avital. The Council's first chairman, Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich, set the tone in 20...

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