80 Years ago (April 19, 1943) the Warsaw Ghetto exploded an uprising during which the Jews took up the fight against the Germans. The April Uprising was the largest armed uprising of Jews during World War II, and at the same time the first urban uprising in occupied Europe. The symbol of the memory of the struggle for dignity is daffodil.

Why Daffodils?

One one of the survivors of the Warsaw ghetto was Marek Edelman, the last commander of the Jewish Combat Organization. Every year on 19 April, On the anniversary of the uprising, he laid a bouquet of yellow flowers under Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Muranów. Daffodil has become a symbol respect and memory of the Uprising.

Action social and educational Daffodils 2023

Museum Polin encourages to join the social and educational campaign Daffodils 2023, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the uprising in Warsaw Ghetto. On April 19, we pin a daffodil to ourselves as a sign that #ŁączyNasPamięć (you can make a paper daffodil – template available on the museum's website).

More About the action: https://www.polin.pl/pl/akcja-zonkile-2023

Community Jewish in Ełk

President In the morning, Ełk laid symbolic daffodils under a plaque commemorating the resting place of Ełk Jews. In the place where the obelisk is now located (John Paul II Square), in In 1837 a Jewish cemetery was established.

In In 1932, 150 Jews lived in our city (0.9% of all Jews residents). Until 1938, at the present 7B Armii Krajowej Street there was a synagogue that was burned down after the Night Crystal.

Museum Historical in Ełk invites you to an open lecture: The fate of minorities Jewish in Poland of the twentieth century on the example of the community Bialystok.

Lecturer dr hab. Joanna Sadowska (Faculty of History and Relations) International University of Bialystok)

Deadline: April 19, 2023 (Wednesday), 6.00 p.m.

Place: Wąski Tor 1, FREE ADMISSION

More on: https://muzeum.elk.pl/