In 2014, journalist Małgorzata Niezabitowska and photographer Tomasz Tomaszewski, authors of the book Remnants. The last Jews of Poland donated to the collection of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews a series of 30 photographs illustrating the publication, the camera with which they were taken and the typewriter on which the interviews collected in the field were transcribed. | The book was published first in the United States in 1986 and in 1987 in West Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In Poland, the publication "Remnants. The Last Jews Of Poland" (Ostatni. Współcześni Żydzi Polscy) was not published until 1992, because in 1985 the censorship of the Polish People's Republic did not allow it. | The joint work of Niezabitowska and Tomaszewski is a unique album combining photographs (Tomaszewski) with text (Niezabitowska). The whole project documents the lives of the last 4,000 to 5,000 Jews who remained in Poland after the Holocaust and the wave of emigration as a result of anti-Semitic sentiment commonly referred to as March '68. The book also contains a brief chronology of the history of the Jews in Poland and a glossary of basic terms and meanings. The project was implemented from 1980 to 1985. | The authors of the report also donated to the POLIN collection two fountain pens and a ballpoint pen that Niezabitowska used to take handwritten notes, as well as three notebooks in which she jotted down statements by witnesses of history and fragments of interviews (the notebooks are in the museum's depository). | Małgorzata Niezabitowska (born in 1948) is a journalist, writer and spokesperson for the first non-communist government of Poland. In the 1980s, her reports showing the truth about the People's Republic of Poland were published in the West. Tomasz Tomaszewski (born in 1953) – Polish photographer, creator of press photographs. Contributor to "National Geographic" magazine, lecturer on photography in Poland, the USA, Germany and Italy. He has had numerous solo exhibitions and Polish and foreign-language books, including Cyganie polscy (1982), Ostatni. Współcześni Żydzi polscy (1993), W poszukiwaniu Ameryki (1994), W Centrum (2003) – about the daily life of patients at the Children's Memorial Health Institute. On 14 December 2009, he was awarded the Bronze Medal for "Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis". The life of the photographer is the subject of the 2013 documentary Czarna skrzynka, which was awarded at the 2014 "Festiwal Podróżników Trzy Żywioły" Festival in Kraków. | Marta Frączkiewicz
