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I visited the Museum of History of Polish Jews today @polinmuseum. Here's a thread with some pix from the main exhibition. 1/x
As is standard for new museums in Poland, the building is absolutely top design. 2/x
The first mention of Jews in Warsaw dates back to 1414 when the Warsaw Jewish community was 100-150 people or 5% of the city's population. 3/x
Jewish communities in Poland in 1765, the twilight of the so-called (controversially I'm reading) "Paradisus Judaeorum" period. 4/x
Anthem of the Bund, the Jewish socialist party. 5/x
Manifesto of the Jewish youth org Żagiew celebrating Poland's regaining independence in 1918. 6/x
Jewish press in pre-WW2 Poland. 7/x
Polish-Jewish poet Julian Tuwim's recollection of how the war started. He was simply shaving. 8/x
Close-up of the list of the ghettos in occupied Poland and the shot of the full list. There were some 600 ghettos. 9/x
A page from the Nazi propaganda newspaper Nowy Kurjer Warszawski showing the plan of the Warsaw ghetto alongside light news like sports. 10/x
Part of the museum that is about the Warsaw ghetto makes you walk up and down stairs with names of ghetto streets on steps as if between the real two parts of the ghetto that were connected via a bridge over Chłodna street. Other pic: how the bridge really looked. 11/x
Close up of list of names of the Jewish Combat (or Fighting) Organisation ŻOB fighters. 12/x
Post war poster "Glory to the heroes of the Warsae ghetto uprising" issued on the 2nd anniversary of the uprising. 13/x
A quote from the famous essay by Jan Błoński (published in 1987) that looked at what it meant for Poles to have witnessed the Holocaust. Did their/our responsibility lie in not holding back, not resist? 14/x
As you leave @polinmuseum you walk right into the beautiful monument to the ghetto heroes. 15/ENDS
