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Velis Real Estate Tech is officially changing its name to Singu adopting the title of its property management product the construction of the Panattoni Park Unterfranken has officially started thousands of unlikely Hasidim will commemorate the martyrdom of a lesser-known rabbi sometimes called “The Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto.” Since the discovery of his buried Holocaust manuscripts in December 1950 fascination with the creative genius and theological heroism of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira has swelled into a rising tide of interest in unexpected circles The Rebbe left behind no surviving children and no Hasidic dynasty yet his strange mix of followers continues to grow by leaps and bounds A Hasidic congregation in Israel thrives around the grandson of the Rebbe’s brother Rabbi Yoel Rubin’s remarkable chaburah studies the Rebbe’s Torah in The Shtiebl even though they wear the traditional garb of other Hasidic groups UK has a congregation dedicated to the Rebbe as well a synagogue named Aish Kodesh flourishes under the leadership of Rabbi Moshe Weinberger serving a largely modern Orthodox community otherwise more likely to identify with the Manhattan’s Upper West Side than with Hasidic Meah She’arim an Israeli settlement in Israel carries the name as well taken from a murdered Israeli security guard who was in turn named for the Rebbe’s Warsaw Ghetto writings more widely known for their training and ordination of female clergy Erin Lieb Smokler as their Director of Spiritual Development; Dr Smokler’s 2014 dissertation at the University of Chicago was on the Piaseczno Rebbe To be sure, his Holocaust writings possess an incredible level of potency and immediacy as he finds creative — although often theologically challenging — ways of conveying meaning in the darkness of the Warsaw Ghetto These writings are perhaps the greatest contribution to the study of theodicy since the Book of Job it is his prewar writings that express the warmth and power of his Hasidic philosophy He wrote for a generation not unlike our own with many ideologies competing for Jewish hearts and minds resulting in widespread defection from the Hasidic lifestyles and his thought is persuasive for millennials raised in the current postmodern Zeitgeist Many Americans first encountered the Rebbe of Piaseczno (pronounced Pee-ah-SECH-no) through Shlomo Carlebach’s iconic 1981 “The Holy Hunchback” story Apocryphal and inaccurate in minor details — the story of the child who found the writings is apparently without foundation — Carlebach’s story nevertheless captured the essential spirit of Rabbi Shapira and some key biographical elements well confirmed by survivors who remember his boundless love for all Jews Born in 1889, Rabbi Shapira was the gifted scion of the Grodzisk Hasidic dynasty. He led a large Yeshiva in Warsaw and authored a remarkable introduction to Jewish spirituality for children entitled The Obligation of Students (1932) Trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto with the Nazi invasion of 1939 the Rebbe refused offers from the Jewish underground to spirit him to safety insisting on remaining with the expanding group of followers — Hasidim mitnagdim and freethinkers — who gathered in his Bet Midrash every Shabbat hoping to hear words of consolation to help them through the increasingly horrific conditions of the German occupation After the massive deportation of Warsaw Jews to their deaths in Treblinka first in the Ghetto and then later in the Trawniki labor camp he entrusted his notes from those weekly gatherings — as well as his personal spiritual journal and two unpublished sequels to The Obligation of Students — to Dr Emmanuel Ringelblum’s clandestine Oneg Shabbat archive The precious manuscripts were sealed in a tin milk container and remained entombed under a building at 68 Nowolipki Street until they were accidentally uncovered by a Polish construction worker clearing rubble from the destroyed ghetto The Holocaust sermons were published in Israel ten years later under the title “Holy Fire” — Aish Kodesh — the name by which Rabbi Shapira is now most widely known What accounts for the remarkable popularity of the Rebbe’s works and why does his thought resonate over such a broad and diverse audience an exceptional individual with a unique sensitivity to the challenges of every Jew see his spirituality as a form of heroism: he was “a Jew who could not be rattled by time into even that most forgivable form of levity namely distrust of the Aiberishter [God] on account of personal suffering.” Joshua Rosenfeld testified that “the Rebbe taught us the irreducible nature of faith he uncovered the potency of faith that rests specifically there the path of the Rebbe remains the impossible hope at the core of hopelessness itself.” Many other followers identify with the Rebbe’s searing honesty and authenticity, reflected most clearly in his personal spiritual journal, Tsav Ve-Zeruz in which he remarkably lays bare all his doubts and fears without sacrificing his awesome faith in God One of the most oft-quoted passages portrays his self-doubt (translation by Yehoshua Starrett): “Thank God…in a few months it will be my fortieth birthday Not so much from the inevitable passing of my life but from the spiritual poverty of my years do I shudder: they are gone and past wasted on childish games…But to what shall I commit myself I see myself as a self-portrait that shows all colors and features real to life public documents reveal fascinating overlaps between internal musings like this and their creative transformation into messages that bolstered the spirits of his followers see in the Rebbe a warm and understanding guide for personal spiritual development despite adversity as Nate Fein put it in a recent discussion in Pesach Sommer’s popular Facebook group dedicated to the Rebbe: “I feel like he’s leading me down a path that not only can I achieve but one that he himself walked.” Rabbi Yoel Rubin echoed the feeling of many of us when he wrote “The Rebbe has built a Bridge between the heart and mind Upon learning his Seforim one can get the feeling of a father taking his little son by the hand on a road trip together to teach him about life and the universe around us…His ideas are like a very deep wellspring which is brought up to the surface giving it the notion of simplicity and the encouragement of ‘I Believe In You The Rebbe’s Torah from the Holocaust is indeed a remarkable legacy of his genius For those of us who know his writings well it is his prewar work that gives us the true measure of his stature not a Hasid — my family background is Lithuanian via Canada and I prefer the standard Ashkenazi prayer book Yet when an older man in shul the other day asked me “which kind of Hasid I was” — I immediately Henry 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bogies for regional trains metros and trams at a new site in Nadarzyn near Warsaw Two hundred people will be employed at the new site with the cost of investment coming to more than €10 million The first bogies have already rolled off the production line In the near future the site will also perform the maintenance of high-speed train bogies (up to 250 km/h) It will be the first high-speed train bogies service center in Poland The new site will take over the production of bogies from the existing Alstom sites in Piaseczno and Wrocław A production hall with four cranes and office spaces have been built on the area of over one hectare quality control specialists and administrative staff “Our new Nadarzyn site is an example of further investments being done by Alstom in Poland Ultimately in Nadarzyn we will hire 200 people  and we are aiming at producing 1800 train bogies a year that is three times more than today in Piaseczno we will be able to produce up to 3000 bogies a year,” explains Sławomir Cyza CEO and Managing Director of Alstom in Poland Alstom has been gaining expertise in the construction of bogies in Poland for many years it has been performing the overhauls of Pendolino bogies and has produced bogies for regional trains Bogies produced in Poland are parts of Coradia Stream electric multiple units assembled in Chorzów; most of them are being exported Kalonymus Shapiro was born on 20 May 1889 He was born into the great Hassidic families He received his name after a great forefather Kalonymus Kalman Ha-Lewi Epsztejn from Kraków Kalonymus’ mother – Chana Bracha Szternfeld-Horowic – was serving the Lord with her heart and soul throughout her entire life pushing away or even neglecting her own needs in order to raise her sons to manifold [their service] rebbe Elimelech of Grodzisk (1823–1892) was a rabbi and a spiritual leader of Grodzisk Hassidim He dedicated a lot of attention to his son especially when he developed scarlet fever and his life was in danger He died when Kalonymus was three years old I was a small boy when I became orphaned I have hardly known my righteous father – I was never given the chance to be brought up by this saintly man of God he was studying the Torah already as a child [4] He was a student of rabbi Jerachmiel Mosze Hofsztejn from Kozienice who taught him the art of circumcision and to play violin he married Rachel Chaja Miriam Hofsztejn They had two children: son Elimelech Ben-Cijon After the death of Jerachmiel Mosze in 1909 he became the Admor (a title given to tzaddiks) he took the position of a rabbi in Piaseczno remaining in position of the rabbi in Piaseczno His house was located at 15 Niecała street together with a group of his spiritual followers he established a yeshiva in Warsaw named Da’at Moshe (Hebr It was one of the largest Jewish academies in pre-war Warsaw It was managed by rabbi Kalman Huberband a stepbrother of Szymon Huberband in 1932 Shapiro released a textbook The Student’s Duty (Hebr which quickly gained respect in Poland and abroad He promoted a method of modern teaching of the Hassidic youth according to which the teacher was supposed to adjust his language to students’ possibilities inspiring spiritual potential in the students – to wake their souls through service to God [5] The task of the teacher is to help the student to enter the path of discovering their own greatness [6] hence he should avoid talking about punishments which await the apostates which wasn’t printed – it was available only to certain students This work was finally published in Israel many years after the war Shapiro was supportive of Orthodox settlements in Palestine (his brother Yeshayahu Shapiro settled in Eretz Israel in 1920 he also joined the Agudat Israel party Rabbi Shapiro was also interested in biomedicine his prescriptions in Latin were allegedly functioning in Warsaw pharmacies [7] yet the most likely veriosn is that his name cards were taken for prescriptions who he had a strong emotional bond with Her death had left a strong impact on him He wrote: She was extraordinarily righteous kind acts went beyond her possibilities; they were a delight for her soul She was like a merciful mother to the embittered in general but especially for the faithful and for the sons of the Torah his son Elimelech Ben-Cijon Szapiro was injured in the bombing of Warsaw and transported to the Red Cross hospital When rabbi and his family were reciting psalms in front of the hospital the daughter of rebbe from Bolechów from the Karlin dynasty The rabbi survived only because he went looking for a doctor with a group of Hassidim Elimelech died on 29 September 1939 Deeply impacted by the war already in its first months had found itself within the borders of the Warsaw Ghetto It became a place of meetings mainly from Piaseczno and nearby; he also organized a soup kitchen for people suffering from hunger (managed by the Joint Distribution Committee) He was also giving his weekly commentaries to the readings from the Torah Kalonymus Shapiro’s legacy in the Ringelblum Archive The Ringelblum Archive contains three manuscripts and one typescript by Shapiro: the manuscript of The Adept’s Manual a continuation of the pre-war Chovas ha-talmidim directed at older students (it was already finished before the war only corrections were introduced during the occupation) An introduction to Hassidism (a continuation of The Adept’s Manual) as well as a manuscript of Shapiro’s sermons from September 1939 to July 1942 [11] They don’t relate directly to events in the ghetto their role is to strengthen the faith of the listeners and the hope which allows for maintaining human dignity in the horrible ghetto conditions According to Marta Dudzik-Rudkowska,the value of these works is priceless – other documents collected by Oneg Shabbat give an image of reality of that period but rabbi Shapiro’s sermons provide a testimony of spiritual life in the ghetto and changes taking place there [12] It’s the only work completed fully after the beginning of the war; the last sermon was given on 18 July 1942 The typescript contains his personal writings and theological reflections titled The Order and the Willing Fulfillment He believed that it’s good to write down all thoughts – not in order to gain a writer’s fame to save the wanderings of one’s soul The particularly moving fragments are related to the concerns about the health and life of his son who had been suffering from gallstones for years he wrote: This entire place and my whole existence have turned into one thought and one desire standing on a cliff above the sea hanging between the world of the living and the abyss (…) I’m sitting at the edge of his bed The last fragment was written in September 1939 soon after the death of his son and his wife which I have placed in them now and for the future when they would grow and move closer to heaven with their body was crushed (…) The sadness is unbearable We don’t know much about his daily life during the occupation We know that he belonged to the group of rabbis who wrote a prayer for people deported to Treblinka Mentions about the rabbi appear in documents made by other Oneg Shabbat members such as rabbi Szymon Huberbandd (his stepbrother) who participated in Shapiro’s weekly sermons donated Shapiro’s works to the Archive Szymon Huberband wrote: After the ceremonial meal I went to the rebbe of Piaseczno for tish The tzaddik gave a commentary full of reinforcing words a traditional dance in procession began; the tzaddik was crying bitter tears The Archive contains also a recollection from Kalman Huberband the beginning of the year 5701 [1940] where he described a visit to the mikveh organized by Shapiro despite the threat of a death sentence on the Shabbat before the Great Deportation We know that his daughter Rechil Ester was taken away to Treblinka He was also arrested in a round-up but he was freed and employed at a leather warehouse belonging to Schultz shoemaking workshop at 46 Nowolipie street he was deported to the labour camp in Trawniki Jewish organizations were making efforts to free exceptional people from the camp Samuel D. Kassow writes that he worked in the labout camp in Budzyń near Lublin Adolf Berman was trying to free Bloch in the same way he rescued Ringelblum from the Trawniki labour camp and his Jewish friend Emilka Kossower to free him secretly from the camp made an official vow that they will remain together Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapiro was murdered in early November – most likely November 3 – during the 'Aktion Erntefest' ('The feast of the crops') He was shot together with other prisoners of the Trawniki camp A month later (exactly on 13 December 1943 r.) Emanuel Ringelblum who remained in hiding in the „Krysia” bunker wrote in a confidential message to Barbara and Adolf Berman in which he reminded them about putting rabbi Kalman Shapiro on the list of scientists social activists and artists who had died or were killed: In the letter to Mr L. a person from the Trawniki company was missing and should be mentioned next time: Kielman Szapirski (well known in Piaseczno [1] Quote in the lead: Marta Dudzik-Rudkowska Their matzevot were preserved in a good condition they were published as The Holy Fire (Hebr [13] The sermons will be published in December 2020 by the JHI (ARG [17] It is likely that the incorporation of Szapira’s writings into the Archives was initiated by Rabbi Szymon Huberband Our weekly email is chockful of interesting and relevant insights into Jewish history Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira’s book has helped me cope during the pandemic Born in 1889, Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira was a well-known spiritual leader in the 1920s and 1930s He set up the largest yeshiva in the city in 1923 a work on education called Hovat Ha’Talmidim (The Students’ Obligation) which explains to students that they are descendants of the great prophets and leaders in the Torah and are capable of growing to similar spiritual heights Rabbi Shapira organized classes and dispensed charity and became a major spiritual leader of Warsaw Jewry Rabbi Shapira continued to run a secret synagogue leading services and delivering lectures to Jews there He arranged marriages and helped arrange a mikveh he wrote down his weekly thoughts on that week’s Torah portion when the last Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto were being deported to their deaths Rabbi Shapira gathered his papers together He included a letter addressed to whomever might one day find his work and asked that they might be sent to his brother an ardent Zionist who’d urged Polish Jews to move to the Holy Land and who moved there himself in 1920 I take the honor to allow myself a request of the esteemed personage or the esteemed institute who will find these the following my manuscripts… Please be so kind as to take pains to convey them to the Holy Land to the following address: “Rabbi Yeshaya Shapira Tel Aviv…” including with them the attached letter If God will be merciful and I am among the remaining Jews who survive the war I ask that you please forgive me and return it all to me… Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira wrote I ordered my own copy of Rabbi Shapira’s book – but found myself seldom reading it It’s insights and lessons were penetrating Rabbi Shapira’s words seemed to cry out for hope in a world full of pain and fear that I just couldn’t relate to I cannot – and don't want to appear as if I’m trying to – equate the sadness and loneliness I’ve been feeling during the pandemic in any way with the horrors that Rabbi Shapira experienced I was no longer inhabiting the same bright I took the volume off my bookshelf and the very first words I read spoke directly to my sadness about being unable to pray in the large congregations I used to enjoy: Every Jewish person prays to God and cries out to Him regarding any calamity… But what can we do when they do not permit us to cry out and we are forced to pray in hidden places and every Jewish heart must lament this alone Rabbi Shapira was facing imminent death and his words were aimed at people living in horrendous danger greater than anything we can even imagine today reminding me that even when we’re isolated at home Another powerful passage gave me strength to see meaning in even the difficult parts of life as part of a larger Divine plan The emotions that we’re all experiencing in this age of Coronavirus are surely ones we are meant to somehow grow from too ...if a person sustains himself (in difficult times) only with his belief in imminent salvation then his experience of agony and suffering remain unmitigated This is not the case if together with the belief in salvation he also bows his head saying and will do what’s best in His eyes.’ This actually softens and absorbs the bitterest feelings and lessens the sting of pain at what is happening and his faith has more power to boost his spirits salvation does not come as soon as he had hoped Reading Rabbi Shapira over these past few months has been incredibly comforting At times it feels wrong to gain so much comfort from the wisdom and insights he shared in times that were so much worse than our own But the hard-won ideas he wrote speak to us still it can feel even more difficult than ever to be optimistic about the coming new year Rabbi Shapira has powerful lessons that feel fresh and uniquely relevant today Recognizing the weariness of people living in difficult circumstances, constrained from their ordinary lives, he urged his students to acknowledge this pain as they prepared for a new year. In the days before Rosh Hashanah Rabbi Shapira observed that the difficulties that he and his students were facing had completely changed the way they viewed the world we can see that by comparison with the way we used to feel we have become numb to all pain and suffering But if we were capable of responding to all the pain of our current suffering with emotion and distress Despite this pain, Rabbi Shapira had a positive message to convey we still have it in our power to control how we respond – and to face even the hardest of circumstances with spiritual growth It’s a powerful legacy that speaks to us across the generations with a new urgency today which describes the lives of 40 remarkable women who inhabited different eras and lands giving readers a sense of the vast diversity of Jewish history and experience Thank you for signing up for the aish.com free newsletter a construction worker happened upon a cache of old milk tins buried in the Warsaw Ghetto the contents of which upended our understanding of the Holocaust The tins held the second of three caches of the Oneg Shabbos archives: a collection by ordinary people turned archivists who risked their lives to preserve the darkest moment of Jewish history lay the collected sermons of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira what can we learn from Rabbi Shapira’s works And what debt do we owe to the brave Oneg Shabbos archivists Schwab: Welcome to Jewish History Unpacked where we do exactly what it sounds like Yael: I’m Yael Steiner and my childhood dream was to stay in school forever Schwab: And I’m Jonathan Schwab and I am in school forever I’m going to ask you to imagine something each week had decided to paint something that reflected the week’s current events But it wasn’t just an actual literal depiction of the week’s current events it was an artistic interpretation of how those events made him feel or how they impacted his community we’re going to talk about an individual Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira who did very much the same as I just he prepared a sermon on the weekly Torah portion and his sermons spoke directly to what life was like without actually telling us what life was like we didn’t have enough bread.” But he would pull stories from the weekly portion and the way in which he would tell them gives us a glimpse into exactly what was happening in the ghetto that week we have a tremendous historical record of what went on in the Warsaw Ghetto from both subsequent testimonies of people who lived there and also because of the work of Emmanuel Ringelblum who was a young historian who realized in the midst of the terrible tragedies that were unfolding in Warsaw that one day people are going to need to know about this And took it upon himself to create a historical archive The historical archive was called Oneg Shabbos And the reason why he called it that was in order to mask what the group’s real goal was I think he wanted people around him and certainly the Nazis to think that it was just a group of people getting together to enjoy each other’s company on Shabbos to the extent that that was allowed at the beginning of the ghetto And what Ringelbum did was appoint a group of collectors who went around the ghetto and collected not only stories but actual historical documents and had these zamlers collect and archive this material And when Ringelbum realized the likelihood that the ghetto would be completely liquidated he had his group assemble those documents in three different packages and bury them in three different places around the ghetto in the hopes that they would be discovered ultimately after the war but we believe that he was connected to Rabbi Shapira by one of his zamlers And Rabbi Shapira gave over his manuscripts not only of the sermons but of other books that he had written Schwab: There’s so much to talk about of this notion of like awareness that they were living in a historical time and reserving documents for the future Yael: There are so many different stories that we could unpack here There’s spiritual resistance of Rabbi Shapira’s determination to bring his followers and his community closer to Torah and closer to faith even under the most dire circumstances There is the intellectual resistance of Ringelblum and his team in assembling this documentation and the knowledge in the moment that people in the future might not be able to comprehend what is happening here And then there is really the story of the everyday lives of the people who lived in the ghetto and how they just got through the day Which one are we going down… Or is it all three Yael: We’re going to focus today on Rabbi Shapira And I want to take a few steps back because I I really have overloaded you with a ton of information Yael: Rabbi Shapira was born in 1889 to a Hasidic family He became the rebbe of a town called Piaseczno when he was a young man and he amassed a rather large group of followers but also because of his temperament and the kind of person that he was Yael: He was someone who really believed in the intellectual growth of every person and even in the ghetto when there were so many different types of Jews piled on top of each other and people could be suspicious of one another he was the type of person that spoke to every type of Jew from Hasidic to agnostic One of the first books that he wrote was something called Chovot HaTalmidim which is And while that sounds very much like a mandate Schwab: I’m guessing that unfortunately where the story goes is that he doesn’t survive the ghetto or the Holocaust Nor do a majority of the zamlers who were part of the Oneg Shabbos’ archive The reason why we actually even know that this archive exists is that there were a handful And those people remembered the location of one cache of documents so it’s not like we just happened upon we wouldn’t even know where these things were Ringelblum insisted that the documents be buried in three different locations And in order not to have his endeavor discovered by the Nazis he had really kept the members of his group apart from one another Like many of the zamlers did not know who the other zamlers were because that limited the chance that the Nazis would discover them and what they were trying to do So of the handful of people that survived one or maybe a few of them recalled where one cache of documents had been hidden Unfortunately the type of box that those documents had been hidden in was not watertight The podcast that makes sense of Israel’s past and present Yael: And those documents were found to have little or no utility They were illegible and we don’t know what was in there There were however two other caches of documents No one who survived knew or remembered where they were One cache has not been discovered to this day It is possible that at some time in the future someone in Warsaw will uncover a treasure trove of Jewish historical documents that could illuminate so much for us I really do hope that one day that does happen and that those documents are intact which is where the writings of Rabbi Shapira were found among many other thousands of documents was discovered in 1950 by a Polish construction worker who was clearing out- actually survived because they were kept in tin milk containers So I don’t know when this worker discovered these milk tins It sounds so similar to the story of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls which I think were discovered around the same time Like really important documents that were discovered by accident by someone who just sort of came across them and then had some inkling that it might be important Yael: And that is so very much my hope for the third cache of documents the manuscripts that Rabbi Shapira provided were taken by Rabbi Huberband to the Oneg Shabbos people We call it the second cache because it was the second one we found And now have really been studied by so many scholars and have brought so much illumination to what life in the ghetto was like Was he recognized as really important at the time or is his importance that we have his work Chovot HaTalmidim and some other manuscripts And he also took the time in the ghetto while he was writing these sermons to edit and improve upon previous manuscripts that he has written that were also included in the archive that we also have Schwab: Did he disseminate those at the time the first people to read them were the people who discovered them were disseminated publicly prior to the war or maybe during the war But I don’t know about the other manuscripts that he edited at that time And it’s also clear that the sermons that he wrote each week he intended to be included in one manuscript Because it wasn’t simply that we found notes jotted down of the sermons that he gave each week but he did himself collect them into a book that we now know as the Aish Kodesh which means holy fire And is now a name that people use to refer to Rabbi Shapira They call him the Aish Kodesh which was never a name he gave himself Nor was it a name that he ascribed to the writings He called the writings once collated Torah from the Years of Wrath Yael: And speaks very much to his feelings about what was going on in the ghetto Wrath is such an interesting word and leads us into one of the more philosophical elements of Rabbi Shapira’s writings Wrath indicates to me the imposition of some kind of punishment- Schwab: It sounds like that’s God’s Wrath It’s not the years of sadness or the years of destruction That title and what Rabbi Shapira had to say about each weekly Torah portion is what leads many to deem him the father or the arbiter of theodicy Theodicy for anyone who doesn’t know because I certainly didn’t know until I was an adult is the justification of God’s existence despite evil how do we acknowledge a God that lets terrible things happen to us Or why do bad things happen to good people Yael: The first time I ever heard the word theodicy was in the context of a class that was being offered and I thought the class was just about the Odyssey… like Homer’s book Schwab: I had the same exact experience (laughs) and I had heard the term many times before I saw it actually written out and it’s not spelled the same way as Odyssey Schwab: And the first time I saw it in print I didn’t know what Yael: I was really scared to ask anyone what it meant for a very long time But Rabbi Shapira is heavily associated with this concept of theodicy And that association really grows out of the content of the sermons that he prepared in the ghetto I want to take a step back and just talk practically about how these sermons were delivered In 1939 when certain Jews were ghettoized in Warsaw Rabbi Shapira began hosting Sabbath services in the small apartment that he had in the ghetto which- I’m not sure at what point he had relocated from Piaseczno to Warsaw He held Sabbath services in his apartment ; some weeks up to 300 people gathered around his table to hear from him Yael: And doesn’t mesh with my vision of the ghetto at all But even under the most trying of circumstances movement worship was limited in the ghetto he continued to host these services every week Schwab: And was sort of like grappling with these questions and these issues in real time how can God have let the Holocaust happen 10 or 20 years later with a fuller understanding of one of the starkest examples of this comes in 1939 that results in Rabbi Shapira’s son and daughter-in-law being killed in the fall of ’39 And after his son’s death there is a six-week period where we do not have a record of a sermon being delivered which means either he did not give one or he did not record them He picks back up with recording these sermons which to our knowledge he wrote down on Saturday nights after the Sabbath ended He picks up with the Torah portion of Chayei Sarah which is the story of the death of the matriarch immediately after the story of Abraham taking Isaac to be sacrificed at the incident known as the Akedah Rabbi Shapira speaks about the fact that it is possible for God to push someone too far Yael: Which is unusual for him because most of his writings were there to create spiritual fortitude in his congregation and how we’ve been here before but God is with us and that whatever tragedy is being inflicted upon us is for a reason he indicates that he really truly believes that Sarah’s death was a direct result of her vision of her son about to be sacrificed God had taken her too far astray from what she could tolerate and that was why her death occurred Schwab: She died as like a traumatic response to tragedy and he’s writing about this few weeks after the death of his son And that’s just one sermon that we can tie to what was going on in his life or in the ghetto at that time Schwab: Does he reference that directly or this is all- we know from other sources that his son died We see him talking about this but he’s not saying “And here I am grappling with this because my son was just killed six weeks ago.” Yael: That’s one of the amazing things about his writings If you discovered them in a vacuum it is very possible to read them without the knowledge that they were written in the Warsaw Ghetto that they were written under Nazi occupation There is no evidence whatsoever that they were written in Poland He doesn’t reference what is going on around him But if you study each week’s sermon side by side with the historical record of what was going on in the ghetto at that time there’s very much a change in Rabbi Shapira’s tone I mentioned the sermon that he gave on Chayei Sarah but that was really an outlier for his sermons in the years ’39 and ’40 he often indicated that the suffering that the Jews were going through was part of a normal course of history and maybe part of what was going to garner reward for us in the world to come that this was the tragedy that we needed to go through in order to get to that moment in history when we would be redeemed I have a very strong visual image in my mind of people crowding into this apartment in an incredibly difficult time and feeling a sense of empowerment Like everything seems so awful but here’s somebody who’s making sense of it and perhaps showing like a positive to it But it sounds like then at some point that’s not the message anymore It might be Grodnitzky escapes from the Chelmno death camp and makes his way to the Warsaw Ghetto He reports to the people living in the ghetto what is really going on outside the walls Not that their persecution within the ghetto was nothing Yael: It gets worse and a tremendous system of extermination of the Jews was being put into place outside the walls of the ghetto and that that’s what they had to look forward to Yael: And after the time of this report which the Aish Kodesh himself does not reference But if you take the dates and line them up because that shook the Warsaw Ghetto like just- And that shook him and you see that change in tone in his weekly sermons where he goes from this is something we just have to get through to get to a better place whether it’s in this world or the world to come and he switches over to this notion that this is something that needs to happen And God himself is having a hard time watching us suffer this way and he has closed himself off to the Jews in a chamber He would act and that action would destroy the world but it speaks to someone who could not face the possibility that there was a God who would willingly do terrible things to the people of the world And that’s really what Rabbi Shapira is known for it’s interesting because it reminds me of what you were saying earlier about his sermon on Chayei Sarah and the idea of like a tragedy that is so awful a person can’t bear it anymore and it sounds like he’s been applying the same thing Like this tragedy is so awful God can’t bear it and he he’s like personalizing God in that way and I think he’s saying that God isn’t turning his back on us but he’s sort of hiding from us right now And he didn’t need to know why to have faith I don’t think that most people could live that way But I think he knew that the people in the ghetto needed something to cling on to and that really is very much in line with his pedagogy which we know about from the Yeshiva that he started in the 1920s where he really addressed each student as that student needed to be addressed He was much less stern than other heads of Yeshivot at that time and he really believed in the inner expression of each student He reminds me of another figure from the Warsaw Ghetto He was a pediatrician and the head of an orphanage in Warsaw and he lived among his orphans and eventually despite being offered a chance to escape walked with them with his head held high with the children dressed cleanly and neatly to the Umschlagplatz in Warsaw which was the railroad junction where the cattle cars were loaded and I kept seeing him pop into my head when I read about Rabbi Shapira an atmosphere for the children he was leading that gave them emotional strength He had the children read and write and perform plays and he tried to keep a sense of normalcy for them as long as possible was treated slightly better not by the Nazis many of the other people who worked in the workshop were also well-known rabbis and there is testimony that the discussion in the workshop while people were recycling used clothing into fabric for the Nazis was just top level Torah discussion And ultimately when the ghetto was liquidated He was offered a chance to escape from the work camp “If my Hasidim are not going to be rescued I’m not going to be rescued.” And he was ultimately shot with the entire population of the work camp And the death camp at Sobibor and some other places That might not all be in super chronological order but there’s a lot of wonderful historical writing that’s been done about both Oneg Shabbos and the Aish Kodesh On the Torah from the Days of Wrath that I really recommend in helping me prepare this podcast and he also explained a little bit of the historiography to me which is that after this cache was discovered in 1950 there was an individual in Israel named Baruch Duvdevani who returned to Warsaw retrieved the materials from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw where it was kind of languishing And published the Aish Kodesh for the first time Yael: And it was only discovered many years later that the first publication of the Aish Kodesh was not 100% consistent with the original manuscript Because if you look at the handwritten pages from Rabbi Shapira you will see a lot of fascinating material that emanates from these copy edits You can see how Rabbi Shapira’s mind changed about certain things over the course of the war so ultimately several historians both before Dr Abramson himself have written about the manuscript and the different changes there are two changes that I want to talk about as we wrap up because I think they really encapsulate the struggle that Rabbi Shapira and the Jews of the ghetto took on as they tried to maintain some sense of spirituality and fidelity to religion under really trying circumstances One is that on the cover of a manuscript not of the Aish Kodesh but of another book that you can see Rabbi Shapira edited during his time in the ghetto and that was included in the archive under his name there is something crossed out very violently and aggressively And a modern historian has used breakthrough technological techniques to reveal what was underneath that cross-out “av beit din Piaseczno,” which means the head of the Jewish rabbinical court in Piaseczno Abramson posits that the reason why that was crossed out so violently is that once Rabbi Shapira realized there were no more Jews of Piaseczno there was no community to preside over as an av beit din Like how often do we see that in a historical document like someone’s actual feelings I’m despairing or I’m losing this hope or or I’m just incredibly horrified and sad about what’s happening,” but like be able to actually really feel the feeling through what they did Yael: The other amendment that I want to talk about is with respect to a sermon that Rabbi Shapira gave on the topic of Hanukkah in 1941 he was still writing as though redemption might be upon us and he spoke about the trials and tribulations that the Jews experienced during persecution We have been persecuted by this group and that group and we will come out of this the same way.” This is nothing we haven’t seen in the past after the escapee from Chelmno had told them what was going on outside and after things had really deteriorated in the ghetto Rabbi Shapira went back and amended his sermon from that time and said We have never experienced persecution like this before.” I feel like that anecdote sums up the entire thing for me of I thought at the beginning this is a story of just like realizing one’s place in history or or how do we use historical context to like better understand what someone is writing But it’s really a story of this like How does our faith change with us when we encounter the impossible Yael: And I think Rabbi Shapira was realizing that this is a completely unique situation It reminds me of something I discussed with Dr There is absolutely nothing like it in our history where we have a first-hand contemporaneous account of what is going on and how Jews are being treated but written in a way that requires interpretation to reinforce for his community that Jews have suffered in the past and will suffer in the future he realized he was in a unique time in Jewish history Schwab: I know we’re close to the end here and I almost want to say like how do we end on like a positive or optimistic but that’s sort of the story of this whole document is Like he doesn’t get a chance then to years later give a closing to this in any way We only get to see what he was grappling with at the time and then it’s it One is a tremendous amount of gratitude to him and to Emmanuel Ringelbum and to all the people who had the foresight to put together this historical archive because they knew that future generations would need to see it Whether or not they believed there would be future generations of Jews that the future of the world needed to see it and then also that we are still here and we are still talking about it and we are able to benefit from both the scholarly Torah work of Rabbi Shapira and also the philosophical challenges that he raises There is a scholarly debate as to whether or not Rabbi Shapira did lose his faith or not before the end We certainly don’t have time to get into that now but it’s definitely something to think about and I just have gratitude to the people who sacrificed themselves to make sure that we know what they went through I feel like this story is different than a lot of the other ones that we’ve talked about Tremendously impactful and I really do recommend that any of you 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for the eyes BMW sales partner Team Długołęka initiated the BMW R 18 The Great Wave The leitmotif here was to modify the BMW R 18 taking inspiration from Japanese art painting and the Japanese style of bobber-style motorbikes The bike’s patinized paintwork makes you think that the R 18 The Great Wave has been around for decades and has just been found in a barn This special paintwork technique was entrusted to the best artist in Poland: Łukasz Elbalenko The theme of the Great Wave in Kanagawa was chosen because it is one of the most famous works of art from Japan by Hokusia The Japanese bobber style features details such as the rear ducktail fender and the shortened frame rear section with a single seat covered in natural brown leather handmade silencers with slotted copper-colored end pieces and hexagonal cross-section You will also find the exclusive copper coating on the shaft drive classic Shinko tires with a very large cross-section and grooved tread give the R 18 The Great Wave a particularly masculine look A flat drag bar handlebar with genuine leather grips and personalized emblems on the engine round out the well-balanced look of the R 18 The Great Wave and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site Keeping this cookie enabled helps us to improve our website Please enable Strictly Necessary Cookies first so that we can save your preferences More information about our Cookie Policy on our Privacy Policy You can read this article in 4 minutesAgnieszka Kulikowska - Wielgus The German automotive manufacturer expects transport companies it works with to lower their freight rates The BGL carrier organisation has sharply criticised the shipper's demands Photo credits @ MB Motors Mercedes-Benz Piaseczno-Janki/Facebook Car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz AG informed its transport service providers earlier this year that it expects a 10 percent reduction in freight rates across all transport contracts (total freight rate) by 1 February 2025 Corresponding offers were expected from transport companies by 23 January 2025 according to reports from leading German carrier organisation BGL The organisation is urging the manufacturer to reconsider this step “The German premium car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz is driving German transport service providers out of the market in favour of low-cost suppliers from Eastern Europe,” the organisation commented bitterly BGL argues that such an approach is completely unjustified “The failures of the automotive industry cannot be cross-financed by the transport sector The German economy and its SME sector will not be revived through cutthroat competition,” the association added the shift to Eastern European cut-price competition is inevitable and it is only a matter of time before we experience a ‘Gräfenhausen 2.0’,” said Prof He was referring to the case of Agmaz drivers who protested at the Gräfenhausen parking lot over unpaid wages “This would be accompanied by the collapse of domestic medium-sized transport companies,” Engelhardt warned Engelhardt also pointed out that just a year ago the automotive industry lobbied the government to double truck tolls “This toll increase has raised the operating costs of each individual truck by about €20,000 per year—this in an industry where average margins in road freight transport range from just 0.1 to about 2 percent our medium-sized companies are expected to bear the consequences of the automotive industry’s misguided policies and offer ruinous freight rates Those who cannot comply—because the reduced rates do not even cover their costs—will likely lose their contracts to low-cost suppliers from Eastern Europe who often pay their drivers starvation wages well below the minimum wage This form of predatory competition is unworthy of a premium German brand like Mercedes-Benz,” he added BGL has called for these demands to be reconsidered and amended as soon as possible A similar appeal was made over a year ago by steel producer ArcelorMittal the company sent a letter to its transport service providers in Germany outlining how it envisioned future cooperation after 1 December The steelmaker did offer to cover the toll increase—but only under conditions it had set The additional amount was to be calculated based on the number of kilometres driven on German motorways from loading points to the headquarters of ArcelorMittal customers “We must request a reduction of current base prices by 5 per cent from 1 January 2024 which will remain in effect until the end of 2024,” the metallurgical giant stated at the time Pölös Zsófia Journalist Trans.info | 5.05.2025 Agnieszka Kulikowska - Wielgus Journalist Trans.info | 5.05.2025 Sabina Koll Journalist Trans.info | 5.05.2025 GXO to manage Northern Italy transport operations for PRG retail groupPölös Zsófia Journalist Trans.info | 5.05.2025 Kalonymus Kalman Shapiro was a tzaddik from Piaseczno near Warsaw The outstanding speaker and teacher gave the other ghetto prisoners strength by preaching during the “years of madness” – as he called it – 1939-1942 Shapira’s war writings have been preserved in the Ringelblum Archive Shapiro’s home in the Warsaw ghetto became a meeting place – Jewish holidays were celebrated there in the Hasidic fashion and the tzadik himself gave weekly comments to the Torah but also an important member of the Jewish community who prepared the volume of Shapiro’s writings in the full edition of the Ringelblum Archive tells about his innovative approach to pedagogy: He also changes the portrait of the typical teacher because he keeps saying that the teacher must use his students’ own language and he has to treat them as equals He encourages the teachers to use humor in their teachings and he wants them to teach the students to use imagination: to visualize certain elements and through those visual elements you can introduce particular ideas into the world of the young people What was the life of Kalonymus Kalman Shapiro Sources used in this episode:Archiwum Ringelbluma Yaakov Klein’s “Niggun Ash Kodesh – A Tribute to the Piaseczno Rebbe and his Kingdom of Children” can be viewed here: https://bit.ly/3h9Ydpb. If you would like to learn more about Yaakov and his organization Lost Princess Initiative follow the link: https://linktr.ee/Lostprincessinitiative Professor Daniel Reiser’s analysis of Rabbi Shapiro’s Nov 4 sermon on Parashat Chayey Sarah is to be published in the article “Sarah Our Rebbe: R Shapiro’s Feminine Spiritual Leadership in The Warsaw Ghetto” in the academic journal Nashim A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies & Gender Issues It comprises more than 5,700 sqm of leasable space as well as a 220 sqm food court with a drive-thru option in a separate building It also has 54 above-ground parking spaces and 82 for tenants in the underground car park Tenants of Point.44 include motorcycle dealer Liberty Motors bicycle showroom AirBike and Italian industrial manipulator manufacturer Dalmec Dentons represented the selling party for this transaction while Cushman & Wakefield acted as its advisor Panattoni has been granted a EUR 14 mln loan from Alior Bank for the development of an 11,190 sqm centre for a leading logistics operator Xior has bought the Basecamp Wrocław student residence Sienkiewicza has 780 rooms and is the largest in Poland in terms of floor space Newgate Investment has completed the purchase of a retail park at ul 16,000 sqm and stands on the site of a former Tesco hypermarket investors bought commercial real estate with a total value of EUR 155.8 mln according to a study by Fortim Trusted Advisors followed by investments from Lebanon and Romania (9 pct) Berlin Hyp has just released the findings of its Trendbarometer survey of just under 140 real estate professionals Santander Bank Polska and Helaba have granted AFI a total of EUR 120 mln in refinancing for four PRS assets under the brand AFI Home in Warsaw This is the largest transaction of its type in this sector in Poland Panattoni has secured financing from mBank for its latest project in the Małopolska region The €26 mln funding will be used to develop the modern logistics complex Generali Adriatic Value Fund has concluded the sale of two properties in Ljubljana: Stekleni Dvor and Tivoli Center The buyer of both properties is Agromarket Logistic The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is providing a regional loan of up to EUR 120 mln to AFI Europe to support its development pipeline across Serbia BIG Poland has announced the acquisition of Power Park Olsztyn a shopping centre located in the southern part of Olsztyn This strategic investment reinforces the company’s commitment to expanding its presence in Poland’s retail sector through high-quality assets Syrena Real Estate has sold its first PRS project at ul The new owner is the Belgian company Xior Student Housing NV making it the second successful sale of a stabilised PRS project in Poland KGAL has acquired the Streitfeld Lofts office complex with 8,400 sqm of rental space and 54 underground parking spaces for one of its institutional special funds The seller of the property is one of the BlackRock Real Asset Funds Fashion House Warsaw in Piaseczno offers 17,000 sqm of leasable space The owner of the property is Polonia Property Fund II which currently runs three Fashion House properties: in Piaseczno The 700 sqm supermarket will appear in the Galeria Gama mall on September 12th You can read this article in 1 minuteGregor Gowans A Polish police department based just outside of the nation's capital has explained how it is using drones to catch motorists using their smartphones while driving those found guilty of the crime can expect a fine of 500zł (€106) and 12 penalty points In a press release on its website the Piaseczno police department reminded the public of the dangers of using a phone while driving The article from the police also showed how officers in Piaseczno have carried out activities using drones The drones themselves are equipped with special cameras with high zoom functionality allowing for “detailed observation of the behavior of drivers” Photo: piaseczno.policja.gov.pl The police said its findings were that drivers very often use their phones handheld while stopped at traffic lights which police say is attended to “draw attention to drivers that road safety depends to a large extent on ourselves and the decisions we make while sitting behind the wheel of a vehicle.” Strabag Romania has been selected by the developer and investor PPF Real Estate as the general contractor for the construction of its new office property class A office building to the 6th District of Bucharest According to the report released by research firm Spectis “Modular construction market in Poland 2024-2029” top 100 manufacturers of prefabricated buildings made of wood or LECA generated revenue of nearly PLN 10 bln in 2022 with 47 pct of the figure contributed by sales in the modular building segment Polish construction company Erbud has signed a cooperation agreement with South Korean giant Daewoo Engineering & Construction to jointly implement projects in the energy and key industrial infrastructural and military sectors across Poland Moscow city authorities have “asked” development and construction companies to enlist their workers to fight in the war in Ukraine in exchange for orders One of these corporations is to provide the Russian defence ministry with 30 volunteers ready to be posted to the front by the end of August Skanska has been commissioned to construct a new building for Polish video game developer CD Projekt on its main campus in Warsaw’s Praga Północ district the European Border and Coast Guard Agency has opened a tender to select a contractor for the design-and-build project of its future headquarters in Warsaw Erbud has been awarded a PLN 29.8 mln contract to modernise the Rector’s Office of the Medical University of Warsaw (WUM) Atlas Ward Polska has started work on two logistics parks with a total area of over 70,000 sqm on the eastern outskirts of Szczecin for Panattoni Polish industrial developer MDC2 has chosen Rex-Bud Budownictwo to be the general contractor for MDC2 Park Gliwice in Upper Silesia Yareal has commissioned FineTech Construction to be the general contractor responsible for completing the final stages of its Lixa office complex in Warsaw Prices for building materials in Poland increased by close to 30 pct over the last twelve months according to Savills Erbud is to reconstruct the Nabrzeże Szyprów shore in Gdańsk for PLN 28.5 mln Hochtief Polska has completed construction work on an educational building for the University of Warsaw on ul Dobra for the department of applied linguistics International investor Cain International and its local development partner have secured a EUR 36 mln loan from PKO BP to complete the development of The Park Kraków Polish construction firm Erbud has merged its subsidiary Mod21 with German wooden modular buildings specialist GWI to establish a new company Erbud has been awarded a PLN 298.4 mln contract to build a distribution centre for discount retailer Lidl near Błonie Erbud has announced a PLN 52.8 mln contract with Polish Export Trade & Investment to build three residential buildings in Warsaw’s Praga-Południe district Living in a communist state with a centrally planned economy private enterprise was the preserve of regime-slurring traitors knew Poles yearned for products they could not find on the bare shelves of state-owned stores she knew Polish women would love to get hold of anything to make them look younger and prettier Having borrowed the equivalent of six Polski Fiats from her mother writing her own recipes using the PhD in pharmaceuticals she had gained from East Berlin's Humboldt University Her husband turned salesman, zipping around Poland in his own tiny Fiat trying to persuade brave shop owners to take a punt on the mysterious tubs of cream he had in the boot with his wife's maiden name on them Twenty-seven years later and Eris is the chief executive of Poland's biggest cosmetics company They make 20m units a year from their factory in Piaseczno a down-at-heel town 12 miles south of Warsaw Seven hundred people are directly employed by the business including 30 at the Dr Irena Eris Centre for Science which is at the forefront of international pharmaceutical research "One day we want to win the Nobel prize," said Eris from the conference room at the headquarters but recentlythree American scientists won the Nobel for their discovery that you can shorten telomeres [the genetic code that protects the ends of chromosomes] only using the discovery to make anti-ageing products We were the first people to put folic acid in cosmetics and the first in Europe to add vitamin K." an enormously cheerful 60-year-old with a big laugh and a taste for bold jewellery Downstairs in the Piaseczno HQ is an experimentation lab staffed by 12 "technologists" who they were developing a yellow shampoo and working out how much fat to put in a jar of premium Dr Irena Eris face cream Her hero is Marie Curie, another Polish scientist who won two Nobel prizes But she also enjoys being compared to the late cosmetics queen Helena Rubinstein the Polish emigree whose motto was: "There are no ugly women "Often people don't realise that Poland has long been a centre for cosmetics Max Factor came from Lodz originally," said Eris Max Factor didn't shout about his Polish roots Eris reluctantly admits that she has learned to keep quiet about her products' provenance too but our experience is that's what we have to do but we don't show off about it either." the Dr Irena Eris line entered the British market via an exclusive deal with Boots "We made a mistake by putting Polish on the packaging," she said but I think we should not have had it also in Polish but Polish products still have a poor reputation in the west where you can stick 'made in France' on the side and people will want to buy it Maybe we should have printed the packaging in French," she mused She is optimistic that this image of Poland will change in time and hopes to be back in Britain before long "It's only a short time ago we were behind the iron curtain We need time to convince the west that Poland is modern and technologically advanced." 1,500 exhibits related to the development and evolution of Apple products—the most recognizable technology brand in the world—will appear in the creative and interactive Apple Museum Poland in the revitalized Norblin Factory complex will hold the most complete and the largest collection in the world presenting computers multimedia carriers with unique Apple materials the museum operated in a temporary seat in Piaseczno its owner was looking for a new location to host an exhibition that would guide visitors through the timeline presenting all Apple products and stages of development in a chronological order – The choice of our new location was not accidental The Norblin Factory appears to be the most electrifying lifestyle center in this part of Europe It is a place with magical cultural and social potential A place where the spirit of the extraordinary history of Polish industry hovers enclosed in a unique modernist-classicist architecture The Norblin Factory is the quintessence of the mix of tomorrow resulting from yesterday It is exactly like the Apple brand – says Jacek Łupina owner of the Apple Museum Poland. We decided to work with Capital Park because the unique approach of the company’s entire team allows us to believe that we are dealing with an organization where understanding sensitivity to the tenant’s needs and the ability to see potential in non-obvious contexts are important – he adds The Japko company is responsible for the production and commercialization of the exhibition that it is our duty to present these unique collections to the widest possible audience We want the exhibition to fit in with contemporary exhibition models We would like it to show the development of ideas in technology in a way that everyone can see what progress we have experienced as humanity We also want to show the sources and directions of civilization we wish to show visitors the true nucleus of technological pop culture We will create a multimedia space in a way allowing people to experience this exhibition not just to see it – says Krzysztof Grochowski President of the Management Board of Japko sp The exhibits and the interactive narrative built around them will encourage the exhibition’s visitor to interact but at the same time they will wait for his or her movement the exhibition will suggest new objects of interest to visitors The transfer of information with the use of audiovisual communication techniques interactions will make the viewer more and more willing to delve into subsequent scenes and space-times built around the Apple brand collections Each of the devices will be shown in an unusual way mapping and infographics will give the viewer the opportunity to interact with the object in a unique environment full of social and cultural contexts and easy-to-understand technical information The exhibition’s real treasure is a working faithful replica of the first Apple-1 computer which was made by the owner of the museum with the help of sponsors and a group of volunteers It has an authentic signature of Apple’s co-founder—Steve Wozniak—on the mother board and the manual The replica will be the starting point for visitors’ journey through the museum The exhibits also include models known for their interesting role in in the technological race and development Visitors will also get to know devices notorious for failures and prototypes that have not been put into mass production The vast majority of them are operational or are being restored test and experience them under the watchful eye of a curator – A real treat is being prepared for Apple brand enthusiasts and technology fans The colorful apple has become the most recognizable symbol of pop culture and the company’s revolutionary devices changed the broadly understood visual culture and design of electronic products forever We are delighted that next to the Norblin Factory Museum which will tell the history of this place and the plating industry thriving in the past there will be another exhibition that will provide us with modern technological ideas in an accessible form as well as the characteristic design and the entire philosophy for which Apple is known The Apple Museum Poland will undoubtedly be a unique place and will enrich the cultural and entertainment offer of the Norblin Factory – says Kinga Nowakowska member of the management board and operational director of Capital Park located in the heart of Warsaw’s Wola district is coming to an end and the Factory will be made available to visitors in September The retail part of the Norblin Factory will include e.g BioBazar (1,800 sq.m.) – the first market in Poland offering only organic products a food hall with themed sections and 26 original restaurant concepts (3,200 sq.m.) such as Blue Cactus Restaurant&Bar The office part of the complex will house also such tenants the Global Business Services Center Japan Tobacco International (8,500 sq.m.) and ISS World Service (4,000 sq.m.) The revitalized space will also become a cultural destination owing to such concepts as KinoGram, boutique cinema with 7 screening rooms for 620 people in total (3,300 sq.m.) with the substantive support of the Directors Guild of Poland The Norblin Factory will also host the first fully interactive and digital art gallery in Poland – ART BOX Experience Capital Park Group is the investor and initiator of revitalization of the Norblin Factory PRC Architekci is responsible for the architectural design Monument Service supervises all conservation works on monuments Regulamin kompleksuRegulamin parkinguCennik parkinguRegulamin muzeumPolityka prywatności Zapisz się do naszego newslettera – nie ominie Cię żadna informacja o promocjach czy wydarzeniach About us | Advertise with us | Contact us Posted: 21 July 2017 | | No comments yet Alstom has started the operations of overhaul on the first of 20 Pendolino trains to have reached 1.2 million kilometres After reaching this distance the Pendolino trains will undergo a first level overhaul which will be performed by Alstom’s team of Polish maintenance experts “Alstom has invested in a new unit in Piaseczno to perform these heavy maintenance activities,” said Artur Fryczkowski “30 new employees were hired and the purchased equipment will be used to carry out further stages of higher level overhauls Alstom is pleased to further develop skills and maintenance expertise in the country.” This schedule was adopted to ensure the maximum availability of Pendolino trains in normal service and the overhaul includes the replacement of wheels The Pendolino vehicles are the first and only high-speed trains in Poland and are characterised by exceptional reliability and availability with over 500 Pendolino trains being ordered in 25 years By No comments yet All subscriptions include online membership giving you access to the journal and exclusive content By By Comment * document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id" "ace044ece0a1b0b6eb5e0d28926a061e" );document.getElementById("j0f0bb4fb4").setAttribute( "id" Write for us | Advertise with us Global Railway Review is published by: Russell Publishing Ltd.Court LodgeHogtrough HillBrasted © Russell Publishing Limited Website development by e-Motive Media Limited