Jakub Gutenbaum was born on August 17, 1929 in Warsaw, Poland. His father, Aron Gutenbaum (born in 1906) was a teacher in a Jewish Community’s school, located on 28 Śliska Street in Warsaw. Jakub’s mother, Rywa Potrzebucka Gutenbaum (born 1912) worked as a teacher in the same school. Jakub attended an elementary school on Waliców Street “Zgromadzenie Kupców”. Jakub’s younger brother, Chaim Gutenbaum, ...

***This footage is from a roughly ninety-minute propaganda film that was never finished or shown publicly. It was created by a German propaganda camera team in the spring of 1942.The Nazi regime created these ghettos and imprisoned Jews within them, subjected them to these conditions of starvation and disease and overcrowding. And yet, with a film like this, they hoped to suggest that these conditions ...

Reproduction of a silver spoon smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto with 5 month old Elżbieta Kopel (later Ficowska) in a wooden box hidden under bricks piled in a wagon in May 1942. It was given to her by her Jewish parents, Izrael and Henia Rochman Kopel, and is engraved with her nickname, Elżunia, and her birthdate, January 5, 1942. The spoon and case were presented to the Museum on the occasion of ...