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“The Cold Eye. March 1942: Final Pictures of Jewish Families in Tarnów” – guided tour through the exhibition
In 1941, in Vienna, a pseudoscientific project was developed in line with the ideology of National Socialism, the aim of which was to “study the typical racial characteristics of Eastern Jews.” As part of the “research” in German-occupied Tarnów, members of over a hundred Jewish families were photographed, a total of 565 men, women and […]
Guided tour through the exhibition “HerStories: In the Footsteps of Jewish Women in Europe”
Seven personal stories with the turbulent European history of the 20th century in the background… Seven women who never met. What connects them is the fact they were born in Jewish families in Europe in the first decades of the 20th century, survived the Shoah, rebuilt their lives after the war, and shared their stories. […]
Screening of the film “Renia Spiegel’s Diary”
We would like to invite you to a screening of a unique film based on the diary of Renia Spiegel. The film details Renia’s life story through metaphoric form, using the original and unusual combination of animation and live-action. As part of the cooperation between the Galicia Jewish Museum and the Education and Art Foundation, […]
Guided tour through the area of the former Kraków Ghetto
Led by: Bartosz Wencel March 13th, 2024 marks the 81st anniversary of the liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto. The ghetto was established in the district of Podgórze, south from the Kraków city center, on the other bank of the Vistula River. It existed for two years during which the Germans murdered most of Kraków’s Jews, […]
Opening of the exhibition “The Cold Eye. March 1942: Final Pictures of Jewish Families in Tarnów”
In 1941, in Vienna, a pseudoscientific project was developed in line with the ideology of National Socialism, the aim of which was to “study the typical racial characteristics of Eastern Jews.” As part of the “research” in German-occupied Tarnów, members of over a hundred Jewish families were photographed, a total of 565 men, women and […]
“Women’s Representations in Holocaust Art” – Lecture by Dr. Batya Brutin
Dr. Batya Brutin is an art historian and researcher of art during and after the Holocaust and Holocaust monuments in Israel and worldwide. From 2000 to September 2018 she was the director of the Holocaust Teaching in Israeli Society Program at Beit Berl Academic College in Israel. Dr. Brutin taught ten annual courses connected to […]
Concert of synagogal music performed by Amnon Seelig and Jakub Stefek
On the occasion of opening the new outdoor exhibition “KL Plaszow. A Site After, a Site Without”, the KL Plaszow Museum invites you to a concert of synagogal music performed by cantor Amnon Seelig and organist Jakub Stefek. One of the most important elements of Jewish culture, both daily and ritual, is singing. In Jewish […]
“Polacy na Wschodzie. Historie mówione” (“Poles in the East. An Oral History”) – a meeting on the book by KARTA Center
Led by: Dr. Marcin Jarząbek The stories of Poles living beyond the eastern border of Poland told in their own voices. This book is a montage of excerpts chosen from memoirs recorded during one of the largest documentary projects of oral history ever conducted in Poland: from 2006 until 2011 during trips to Belarus, Kazakhstan, […]
20 for 20 – Guided tour through the Galicia Jewish Museum exhibitions with Katarzyna Suszkiewicz
Since this year is the Galicia Jewish Museum’s 20th anniversary, on the 20th day of each month we would like to invite you to a unique guided tour through our exhibitions: “Traces of Memory. A Contemporary Look at the Jewish Past in Poland”, “An Unfinished Memory: Jewish Heritage and the Holocaust in Eastern Galicia”, “10 […]
