POLIN RESEARCH

3300 km. The longest deportation route from Tromso to Auschwitz – Birkenau.

Jan 15, 2025 | 19:09 pm

Each January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. Today we have the 79th anniversary and the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Auschwitz has redefined Europe and it sends globally a warning against populism, intolerance, ignorance and silence. Against the major factors dismantling the democratic order and replacing it with a crooked dictatorships in democratic disguise. No other German Nazi camp impacted Europe and its Jewish population the way Auschwitz did. Last week I was at the edges[…]

Is the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz about survivors or Netanyahu?

Jan 15, 2025 | 18:40 pm

The theater of politics stages more and more often tragicomedies. Absurd ideas and ridiculous acts expressed with dramatic seriousness start to have tragic consequences for the polarized and less and less amused audience. If it were not for polarization and siding with one troupe, common sense would call the audience to leave en mass, abandoning the politicians to themselves. When the lights go off and X is silent, there should be space for reflection. But our tribalism,[…]

From T4 through Action Reinhardt to Risiera di San Sabba

Aug 17, 2022 | 09:50 am

RISIERA DI SAN SABBA 79 years ago the sites of mass murder within Action Reinhardt were gradually being closed and taken apart. Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka death camps finished what they were created for, the mass murder of Jewish communities. The German perpetrators in the late summer of 1943 were dismantling the primitive camp's structures to deny those ever existed and recoin this denial into silence and after-war impunity. In such circumstances, the revolts of Sondercommandos in Treblinka and[…]

How to apologize without apologizing? Antisemitism in Russia and the number of Holocaust victims.

May 13, 2022 | 20:51 pm

Can apology become hybrid warfare at the front of the politics of memory? Have 40 % of the USSR Jews become the victims of the Holocaust? President Putin apologized to PM Bennett in a way so that there is no trace of such an apology in the Kremlin or Russian news outlets. They mention the Israeli Independence Day phone call by Putin but as of May 6th deny any apology. The Russian FM Lavrov’s antisemitic remarks on May 1st were[…]

Life rope for Ukraine – from sprint run into marathon relay race.

Apr 25, 2022 | 16:28 pm

It started with a sprint and goes into a marathon relay race. What have we learned after a month of the Russian war in Ukraine? Is there something that we didn’t know before? On February 24th, 2022 everybody seemed to be in the starting blocks. There was no space for the intricacies of a starter pistol. At 05:00 AM Russia gave the signal to run with ballistic missiles fired at Ukrainian airports and heavy artillery shelling at the[…]

11 STAGES app - raising awareness on genocides and Holocaust

Apr 25, 2022 | 11:30 am

11 STAGES app is ready to be used in school education and planning visits to historical sites. CEO of Polin Travel is proud to announce to co-author the concept and produce most of the content of the 11 STAGES app. Tomasz Cebulski was also a scientific supervisor of the project. The app has been developed since 2020 in cooperation with Humanity in Action Polska and Sky Heritage Pictures. The project was supported by the EVZ Foundation. The app presents[…]

A Taste of Jewish Genealogy: Journey with a Polish Scholar - Tomasz Cebulski Ph.D.

May 6, 2021 | 19:06 pm

Tomasz Cebulski Ph.D., the man behind Polin Travel and Heritage Sky Pictures, has spent the last 20 years perfecting his knowledge on archival resources in Poland and Central Europe. He will be joining us live from Krakow to present this introductory program on why, when, and how to conduct genealogy research. Tomasz will share his favorite online resources before demonstrating how he combines research, maps, photo, video and drone documentation into short documentary films. Together, we will take a virtual[…]

78th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - T.Cebulski lecture on Auschwitz Sonderkommando Revolt in 1944.

Apr 19, 2021 | 12:01 pm

On October 7, 1944, a revolt broke out in the Birkenau camp, organized by prisoners of the so-called Sonderkommando, involved in burning the corpses of people murdered in the gas chambers. The so- called Sonderkommandos were the last circle of the hell of the Nazi extermination camps. This Wednesday, April 21 at 6 p.m. we invite you to a lecture by Dr. Tomasz Cebulski - "In the fight for a dignified death - the revolt of the Sonderkommando in[…]

The last victims of Auschwitz — Gideon Klein. Dr T.Cebulski and Dr D.Fligg in conversation.

Jan 30, 2021 | 10:06 am

January 27, 1945, the date of liberation of Auschwitz- Birkenau is remembered today as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Ironically this date didn’t mean freedom for most of the Auschwitz inmates, two weeks earlier they were forced into the death marches direction west. For those who will survive march, transportation, chaos, new camp registration freedom will come only in April , May 1945. January 27, 1945 for the German-Nazis was yet another day for covering up the evidence of Auschwitz[…]