Voyage en Pologne : aux frontières de l’impensable
Varsovie, Łódź, Lublin, Treblinka, Sobibór, Bełżec…

26-30 sept 2024, organisé par AEMJP – lisez le programme

Destruction d’un univers : d’une vie dynamique entre les villes et les Shtetls d’avant-guerre en Pologne, aux sentiers de l’Aktion Reinhard  – Breaking down a universe : from a vibrant life in pre-war towns and Shtetls in Poland, to the trails of Aktion Reinhard

Trip to Poland : Borders of the Unthinkable
Warsaw, Łódź, Lublin, Treblinka, Sobibór, Bełżec

26-30 sept 2024, organized by the AEMJP – see the program

The AEMJP Friends made their annual trip to Poland. This time, they followed the traces of the Operation Reinhardt – the codename of the secret German plan in World War II to exterminate Polish Jews in the General Government district of German-occupied Poland, in particular through the introduction of extermination camps (March 1942 – November 1943).

During the operation, as many as two million Jews were sent to Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka – places we have visited with the European and American Friends of the POLIN Museum in Warsaw. Unlike Auschwitz which partly remained a labor camp, the sole reason why these places were constructed was to kill. They invented and implemented mechanised, industrialized death.

Below, you can see a series of pictures from this emotional trip, which ended with the celebration of 10th Anniversary of the POLIN Museum and the unveiling of the Oliwenstein Family Memorial at the Warsaw Jewish cemetery at the Okopowa street.