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80 years ago, the Third Reich attacked the USSR. The eastern provinces of the Second Polish Republic, known as the Eastern Borderlands, passed from the Soviet into the German occupation. The new power balance brought with itself a change in the status of Jews.

Wilhelm Sasnal is one of the most outstanding contemporary Polish artists. The exhibition presents his works which depict a familiar albeit somewhat remote landscape and well-known figures against it. They show a landscape in the wake of the Shoah.

On the occasion of this year’s Yom HaShoah, namely Holocaust Remembrance Day, we have prepared the online premiere of the documentary film, produced by Karolina Dzięciołowska and Joanna Król for POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 2011. The film has not yet been available on the Internet.

On the occasion of the European Day of the Righteous, we have prepared a new section of the Polish Righteous website about Jewish self-help on the “Aryan side”. Read nine selected stories of rescue, as well as a historical study by Prof. Barbara Engelking.