The web site of the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews is about a museum currently being created in Warsaw, devoted to the memory of the Polish Jews. An international group of experts led by project director Jerzy Halbersztadt have been working on this since 1999. The organization financing the Museum is the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.

The future Museum, with its large-scale educational and exhibition activity, is intended to supplement the research, documentary and publishing activity of the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland. The Museum's mission is to present the history of the Jews on Polish soil and the richness of their culture, and to help young Jews and Poles break down prejudice and bias by showing the truth of their mutual relations. The history program is being prepared by a team of expert historians from Poland, Europe and the United States, directed by Professor Israel Gutman of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

The first centuries of Jewish life in Poland will be recreated in the Museum on the basis of historical research. Replicas, dioramas and models will be created. In Poland, over 40,000 exhibit items have been located, photographed and computerized. The next stage is to search the former eastern lands of Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and around the world, and to cooperate with Jewish museums in Europe, the U.S.A. and Israel that have many artifacts originating from Poland or connected with the history of Polish Jews. The present location of the Museum was a barracks complex for mounted artillery in the 1880s. After the partitioning of Poland, the tsar's Volhynia Regiment was stationed there. In 1817, the Russian government turned the building into an army prison, which later became part of a larger prison complex where the Judenrat had offices during the German occupation. In 1948, the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes Monument, sculpted by Natan Rappaport, was erected on the site of the former Judenrat headquarters. At present there is a sign reading "The Museum of the History of Polish Jews will be located here" at the square on Anieliwicza Street. The museum design by Frank O. Gehr is kept in the spirit of the place. The monument will remain the central point of the square.

The web site contains information on the project and a brief illustrated guide to the history of Jews in Poland.