News Archive

Join us on a journey across the first decade in the life of POLIN Museum!

It's been a year since the terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel, in which over 1,000 people were killed, and 251 Israelis were abducted to the Gaza Strip.

We have been deeply saddened to hear the news of the passing of Zygmunt Rolat.

We bid farewell to Richard Parasol, Friend and POLIN Museum Distinguished Benefactor.

Farewell to Frank Stella, one of the most outstanding American artists of the twentieth century.

We bid farewell to Nimrod S. Ariav, a Friend and Distinguished Benefactor of POLIN Museum, who died on 3 August in Israel.

A sociologist and historian of ideas, professor at the University of Warsaw, journalist and MP of the 5th term, he headed the Jewish Historical Institute in the years 2011-2020.

Join POLIN Museum and people around the world on 27 January to participate in the annual We Remember Campaign, hosted by World Jewish Congress.

Read the history of Stanisław Chmielewski who during war helped over twenty Jews

Jackie Jakubowski passed away on 25 May 2020 in Stockholm

A great man, Polish patriot, friend of Jews and Germans. He was an inmate of the Auschwitz concentration camp, soldier of the Home Army, historian and social activist. He was also a member of “Żegota” Council to Aid Jews who was named “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem Institute.

A Benefactor of the Museum died in Israel

Krzysztof Opawski

On October 4, the outstanding historian, one of the people to whom POLIN Museum owes its existence, died at the age of 84.

Former Auschwitz prisoner, Righteous Among the Nations and member of the Museum Council, dies at 93