On April 19, 2026, we remember and commemorate the 83rd Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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POLIN Museum’s Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign. POLIN Museum encourages communities around the world to learn about the events that took place on April 19th, 1943, and to share online what the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising means to you. If you cannot be in Warsaw, by joining the online campaign, you will be joining a countless number of people around the world, who will be remembering the events of the Uprising. Participation is very simple, and there are several ways to commemorate. The simplest way is to make our official daffodil, a take a selfie for your social media profiles and use our hashtags: #RememberingTogether, #WarsawGhettoUprisingCampaign.

• Make a daffodil; all you need is paper, glue, and scissors, download daffodil pattern and follow the instructions or watch the video how to put your daffodil together to be used to share the campaign.
   
• Watch “There Was No Hope”, a film about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising produced by POLIN Museum. Please adjust the closed captions in YouTube for English subtitles.
   
   
• Explore the Holocaust gallery of POLIN Museum’s Core Exhibition.

Attention educators!

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising campaign is a meaningful and engaging activity that can be a part of your online curriculum. We invite you and your students to join schools around the world in commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. For curriculum materials, please visit Educational Resources.

Commemoration of the 83rd Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at Der Shteyn

Friday Apr 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Riverside Park
Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza
Riverside Drive between 83rd and 84th Street, NYC
Admission: Free. No reservation required.

Speaking in this year’s program are Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Keynote) and Irke Klepfisz (Witness Testimony). Marcel Kshensky will chair.

Readings by Emily Dunkel, Steven Meed, Susan Nowogrodzki, Dinah Slepovitch, and Suzanne Toren.

In the musical program: Joanne Borts, Sarah Gordon, Shifee Losacco, Dinah Slepovitch, Zisl Slepovitch, and Paula Teitelbaum.

The event takes place annually under the open skies, rain or shine, and is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture, Friends of the Bund, the Jewish Labor Committee, Workers Circle, and YIVO.

This memorial follows a tradition established in 1947 by Jewish partisans, ghetto fighters and Holocaust survivors at the site earmarked by the City of New York for a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It has become an annual gathering of Bundists and members of the secular, progressive Yiddish cultural community, as well as children and grandchildren of the original attendees. The program will be recorded and video placed on YouTube after the event to share with those who can’t attend in person.

Lead image: POLIN Museum