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Holiday Season Opening Hours
During the holiday season, the Galicia Jewish Museum will be open for visitors as follows: 24th December 2025 – the museum will be closed 25th December 2025 – the museum will be closed 26th December 2025 – from 12 noon until 6 pm 27th-30th December 2025 – from 10 am until 6 pm 31st December […]
“Footprints” – a series of film screenings at the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre
From November 25th until November 27th, 2025, at the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, South Africa, a screening of Holocaust-themed films, co-organised by the Galicia Jewish Museum and the Camera of David Foundation, will take place. The films which will be presented include “Treasure”, directed by Julia von Heinz, “Where Are You Going”, directed […]
Opening of an exhibition “Unimaginable. The Void After the Great Synagogues”
We would like to invite you to an exhibition dedicated to the monumental synagogues built mostly in the 19th and early 20th centuries, in a variety of styles ranging from Neo-Gothic to Moorish. The exhibition draws attention to the scale of destruction of pre-war monuments of sacred architecture. The reasons for the annihilation of these […]
Guided tour through the Rakowicki Cemetery. Led by: Bartosz Wencel
Starting point: the cemetery gate from Rakowicka Street Since the story of Krakow’s Jewish communities and the individual experiences of many Krakow’s Jews are very complex, the common belief that Kazimierz is the only place where there are traces of the Jewish past is false. We can also find these traces beyond the district of […]
Concert of the Pro Musica Bona Foundation stipendists with a guest appearane by the pianist, Carolyn Enger
We would like to invite you to a special concert performed by the stipendists of the Pro Musica Bona Foundation from Krakow, which supports, financially as well as educationally, gifted students of 1st and 2nd level music schools, as well as students of music academies. The concert will be performed by: Emilia Daszkiewicz – violin […]
New Perspectives. A Contemporary Reading of History: A People’s History. A meeting with Prof. Andrzej Chwalba, Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak, and Prof. Adam Leszczyński
Led by: Michał Nogaś For a few years now, one of the dominant themes in the Polish public debate on history is people’s history. From “Prześniona rewolucja” by Andrzej Leder, through “Ludowa historia Polski” by Adam Leszczyński, “Chamstwo” by Kacper Pobłocki, “Cham i pan” by Andrzej Chwalba and Wojciech Harpula, to the bestselling “Chłopki” by […]
“Między oknami. Opowieści polsko-żydowskie” (“In Between Windows. Polish-Jewish Stories”) – a meeting with author of the book, Rafał Kowalski
Led by: Anna Goc The book includes stories more or less connected with the town of Płock; however, they are also about the entire world: from the story of the Themerson family, through a report on Chawa Złoczewer (also known as Eve Adams), whose fate crossed with the fate of Małgorzata Gałkowska, a Płock-born actress […]
“Henryk Reiss Must Cease to Exist” – Curatorial Guided Tour
Led by: Anna Wencel The exhibition “Henryk Reiss Must Cease to Exist” presents the dramatic story of the Reiss family— Henryk, his wife Łucja, and their daughter Elżunia— who hid their Jewish identity during the Second World War and the Holocaust. The exhibition is based on Henryk Reiss’s postwar memoirs and the family’s collection of […]
Exhibition opening “Gizela Fudem – One Speaking for Many”
The personal story of Gizela Fudem – a Holocaust Survivor – inspired a unique educational project which connected two cities: Tarnów and Wrocław, places with completely different histories and identities. Although the cities’ histories are starkly different, the story of Gizela Fudem builds bridges between them and between young people who took part in the […]
