The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute would like to cordially invite you to this year’s edition of the March of Remembrance, which will start at the Umschlagplatz Monument on 6 p.m. on 22 July. The date marks the 84th anniversary of the Grossaktion – a German campaign in which Jews from the Warsaw ghetto were mass deported to the Treblinka II death camp.
The fifteenth edition of the March of Remembrance will once again take us through the streets of Warsaw to honour the memory of nearly 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto who were murdered over the course of mere two months.
This edition of the March will be truly special, as this year, 22 July – the day when the Grossaktion was launched in 1942 – falls on the eve of Tisha B’Av, a day which in Jewish tradition symbolises great tragedies and mourning. The dates coincided the same way in 1942.
This year, the March of Remembrance pays tribute to women in the Warsaw ghetto. Mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, friends, and caretakers – every day, they all made immense efforts to keep alive domestic and social life in the ghetto in spite of hunger, violence, displacement, and the advancing Holocaust. Their daily care of their close ones, labour, courage, resourcefulness, and willingness to help others were some of the pillars of survival inside the ghetto walls.
The March of Remembrance will start on 6 p.m. with an official ceremony held at the Umschlagplatz. We will then walk through the streets of Warsaw to reach the square bearing the name of Rachela Auerbach. There, we will hold the inauguration of an art installation prepared by Zuzanna Hertzberg especially for this occasion.
Another event will be a stage reading directed by Karolina Kirsz and starring actors from the Jewish Theatre. The script is based, among others, on excerpts from Cecylia Słapakowa’s study preserved in the Ringelblum Archive. Ania Karpowicz will provide musical accompaniment to the performance.
Please RSVP before 10 July 2026 by sending an email to rsvp@jhi.pl.
The institutions willing to lay wreaths are asked to do so between 5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m., before the start of the official ceremony opening the March. Please also inform us in advance of your intention to lay a wreath by sending an email to rsvp@jhi.pl.
Our participation in the March of Remembrance shows that the attempts to erase the crime of the Holocaust and the memory of its victims have failed.
Let us march together!
