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“Sztuka refleksji / The Art of Reflection” – opening of the exhibition by Frances Federer
We would like to invite you to an opening of the exhibition of works by Frances Federer, a British craftswoman and artist of Austrian-Jewish descent who has been living in Poland since 2016. Frances Federer is known for mastering the art of gilding – a process of applying thin sheets of precious metals to surfaces. […]
Concert: Grażyna Łobaszewska & Adam Nowak: Songs About People with Souls
A unique duo—two fantastic artists who deeply care about the lyrics they sing—invite you to a special evening filled with extraordinary music and lyrics which escape banality. These will be both known and lesser known songs. All about emotions. All about our various daily lives. Simply: songs about us, people with souls. Also, the concert […]
Family Sunday: Guided tour through the exhibition “KEF Means Fun!”
In Hebrew, KEF means FUN. KEF is our space for education and imagination. Because in this space, you can learn, have fun, and unleash your creativity simultaneously. And through having fun in the exhibition space, you can discover what every synagogue must have, learn about Jewish holidays and famous people connected to Krakow’s Kazimierz district, […]
“Wallpaper” – screening of the movie directed by Tomasz Frymorgen and a discussion with the authors
Decades after they were forced to leave Poland as children, Anton and Mirjam — two elderly British-Jewish people — travel back to their country of birth to confront what is left of their memories. “Wallpaper” is a reflection on how the history of Poland’s Jewish heritage, and its destruction, continues to resonate as new generations […]
Meeting with Lidia Maksymowicz, former prisoner of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp
As part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day we would like to invite you to a meeting with Lidia Maksymowicz, a former prisoner of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Lidia Maksymowicz was born in December 1940, as Lyudmila Bocharova, in the village of Prybytki near Polotsk, in today’s Belarus. Three years later, together with her family, she […]
Exhibition finale: “To Leave Something to the World. Beyond the Pages of Renia Spiegel’s Diary”
“Now you still have to live, you have to try, you have to leave something to the world.” These are the words of Renia Spiegel, recorded in her diary, and they have become the guiding principle of the temporary exhibition at the Galicia Jewish Museum. Renia left the world a great deal: a personal story […]
Out of the dark. A concert
The project VIVA LA CLASSICA! in collaboration with the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) and Exilarte. Evil during the time of the Third Reich had many dimensions. One of the ideas to ‘purify’ culture was to completely ban the music of many composers who, by the decision of the authorities, did not compose […]
“Singing Behind the Bars” – a theater performance with live music, based on a collection of poems by Henryka and Ilona Karmel
And then the poems appeared. […] They had to come, because you had to have some shelter where no one could brutally invade, in a word – you had to have a home. You had to say how much it hurt, how bad it was, how much you missed. You had to free yourself from […]
“Broken Mirror. An Attempt to Portray Adam Czerniaków” – meeting with Patrycia Dołowy, author of the book
Led by: Dr. Katarzyna Suszkiewicz In this powerful biographical account, Patrycja Dołowy explores the memory of Adam Czerniaków within public consciousness. The head of the Warsaw Judenrat, Czerniaków committed suicide on 23 July 1942 when the Germans decided to liquidate the ghetto. While some have lauded this move as an act of resistance, others instead […]
