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Opening hours during holidays
Opening hours during holidays: Sunday, April 9th: 13.00-18.00 Monday, April 10th, 13.00-18.00
Helena Rubinstein’s Krakow – themed guided tour
Born in the 1870s, Chaya Rubinstein, a daughter of a not very wealthy oil trader, lived in the Krakow’s district of Kazimierz, took care of her younger siblings, and helped her father with business. In these times, worldwide fame and her cosmetics empire didn’t even cross her mind. What did the Krakow of her childhood […]
Curatorial guided tour through the exhibition “Helena Rubinstein. First Lady of Beauty”
In Polish. Free admission. Space is limited. Registration required: zapisy@galicjaold.local
Curatorial guided tour through the exhibition “Helena Rubinstein. First Lady of Beauty”
In Polish. Free admission. Space is limited. Registration required: zapisy@galicjaold.local
Curatorial guided tour through the exhibition “Helena Rubinstein. First Lady of Beauty”
In Polish. Free admission. Space is limited. Registration required: zapisy@galicjaold.local
“Soda Factory and a Trumpet”. Screening of a film and meeting with its creators, Dr. Arie Yagoda and Shmuel Segev
The movie tells the story of two Jewish families that come from two towns in Poland, Jabłonna and Pułtusk. The story takes us from their pre-WWII life, through the affairs they endured during the war to their post WWII rebirth in Israel. The film is based on two books. One was written by one of […]
“The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials Against the Officials of the German Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz Birkenau in 1963-1965. The Criminal Trial and a Call to Confront the Past”. A lecture by Prof. Joachim-Felix Leonhard
Prof. Joachim-Felix Leonhard, the former secretary of state at the Ministry of Science and Art of Hesse, a historian, scholar, and expert in archives, the head of the German UNESCO Nomination Council for the “Memory of the World” program, will deliver a lecture on the trial of the officials of the German Nazi death camp […]
“The Future of the Past”. New Technologies and Commemorations
The development of technology and creation of innovative devices allowing us to document various spaces and create new forms of commemoration, are extremely important in studies on memory. The latest devices, especially digital tools, allow us to create a completely new layer of relations and borrowings, based on the already existing archives of memory. These […]
A premiere of an animated film titled “Shielding the Flame” and a broadcast of an online meeting with Hanna Krall (organized by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews)
A narrative of this film, based on the famous book “Shielding the Flame” by Hanna Krall, takes place in three timeframes: during the Second World War, where we get to know the fate of young Marek Edelman, member of Jewish resistance and the last leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; in the 1960’s, when he […]
