26.10.2021, 17.30

Meeting with Rafał Kowalski, author of the book “Reszta ciała” (“The Rest of the Body”)

Led by: Monika Ochędowska On-site event “Reszta ciała” (“The Rest of the Body”) is a publication which includes reportages about a few generations (grandparents, their children, and grandchildren), which are connected by the town of Płock and by Poland, by their Jewish heritage, by memory, and longing. The author spoke with his heroes in Israel,

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Photos from the Jar – new website accompanying the exhibition “Sweet Home Sweet. A Story of Survival, Memory, and Returns”

“When my father was in the Kraków Ghetto he was still taking photos, and those photos were buried in Plaszow and discovered after the war. He hid them in a glass jar in Plaszow. So I sat with him in his home with these photographs and I asked him who everyone was in the photo.

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25.10.2021 18.00

Between Desire and Contempt. The Historic and Contemporary Images of Jewish Women

On-site event Part of the project “(In)separable. Difficult Subjects in Polish-Jewish Relations”, 2021 edition. Many scholars dealing with Jewish themes from the perspective of gender studies point out that a Jewish woman faces dual discrimination: due to her religious and ethnic identity, and because of her gender. How does gender influence the image of Jews?

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