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POLIN Museum will present six educational films in the series titled “Personal stories”, devoted to the individuals who played a vital role in Polish-Jewish history and culture. One of episodes will be the story of Jan and Antonina Żabiński, Righteous Among the Nations.

80 years ago the Germans issued an ordinance in occupied Poland, in which – on penalty of death – Jews were forbidden from leaving ghettos. On the anniversary of this regulation, which determined the fate of Jews on the “Aryan side”, we publish a new content.

“Over the past several weeks we have been following with deepest concern the developments along the Polish-Belarussian border—the theatre of great suffering of people who have been forced to flee their homeland for political or economic reasons”, we read in the appeal of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.

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.