2026: Joseph Rotblat Square, Museum of Jewish history, Joseph’s wife Tola, Memorial to the Polish people who were sent to work camps in Siberia,. (Photos and text by Teresa Kewachuk, May 15, 2026
Today’s meeting: Marta Piszczatowski, curator at U. Of Warsaw Museum, Eric Bednarski, director, PPC Teresa Kewachuk, Tomasz Kosrrzewa, president of Joseph Rotblat Foundation
Meet at gate of University of Warsaw
Tomorrow (May 15, 2026) all museums in Warsaw are free and it is expected that thousands of people will see the Nobel Peace prize.
Site of Gestapo prison during World War Two. Small museum here.
Memorial for an important Jewish uprising.
Museum of Jewish history. The entrance is symbolic of Moses parting the sea so the Jewish people could escape.
Tomasz worked with the city of Warsaw to establish the Joseph Rotblat square. This land is directly adjacent to the site of Joseph’s house before the war.
Joseph Rotblat Memorial Poster across from his home
A man on a bicycle stopped to complain that the grounds were too small to honour someone who won a Nobel Peace prize. But I think Joseph would have liked this space. Explained Teresa Kewachuk, Pugwash Park Commissioner
We found THE REAL Tola!!! I asked why she didn’t use her name Hadasa. Apparently it was normal for people, who were not orthodox in their beliefs, to choose a Polish name.
For too many years we thought the woman nearest Joseph in this photo was Tola. But NO. Tola is the playful person on the other end on the fence post.
We will remember you.
Memorial to the Polish people who were sent to work camps in Siberia
Other end of that memorial.
Night view.