Prowadzenie: Dawid Mik
“Śladami Stramerów” (“In the Footsteps of the Stramer Family”) is an artistic and educational project inspired by the novel by Mikołaj Łoziński titled “Stramerowie” (“The Stramers”) – one of the most important narratives about Jewish life in Poland and the dramatic circumstances of its survival.
Although the starting point of this project is the town of Tarnów, the idea behind the project is universal. The story about the Stramer family becomes a pretext to reflect on the fates of Jewish communities in the whole region of Galicia as well as other towns of Central and Eastern Europe – the daily lives of these communities, their culture, social relations, and the experience of the Shoah.
The project combines elements of literature, history, photography, and regional education by joining the fictional narrative with material traces of the past. It is an invitation to reflect together on memory, identity, and responsibility for the Jewish heritage.
About the authors:
Katarzyna Nalezińska – writer, curator, literary scholar, cultural activist, author of educational scripts for workshops and lectures on contemporary art. She is an expert in the history of Mościce, the industrial district of Tarnów. She leads literature-themed guided tours in Tarnów, including a route in the footsteps of the Stramer family known from the novel by Mikołaj Łoziński. She works at the Municipal Public Library in Tarnów.
Witold Stachnik – mathematician, publisher, and author. Co-owner of the Wydawnictwo Szkolne OMEGA (OMEGA Educational Publishing Press). Author and co-author of multiple books, including “U progu Wielkiej Wojny” (“At the Threshold of the Great War”), “Kocham Tarnów” (“I Love Tarnów”), “Fiakrem po Tarnowie” (“By Fiacre Around Tarnów”). He is also the author of school textbooks for the Matura exam in mathematics.
In Polish. Free admission.
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