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A Meeting with Ula Ryciak, author of the book: “Shattered. Nireńska and Karski”
Led by: Jacek Stawiski A moving tale of a Jewish-Polish love marked by wartime experiences. London, 1930s. They meet only fleetingly. Before their affection unites them, the war separates them. She, a Jew from Warsaw, seeks freedom and the right to express herself on stage. He, a Catholic from a poor family in Lodz, is […]
“Rendezvous in Vienna” – an exhibition of photographs by Ouriel Morgensztern
The Galicia Jewish Museum is once again presenting the revival of Jewish life in Europe from the perspective of a contemporary photographer. “One does not need to show everything to express everything” is the motto of the works of Ouriel Morgensztern, an outstanding photographer residing in Vienna. A distinctive feature of Morgensztern’s photography is the […]
“The 100th Anniversary of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. 1925-2025” – Lecture by Jacek Stawiski
The Hebrew University in Jerusalem was founded in 1925. It was the first academy in the world in which Hebrew was the language of instruction. On the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, we would like to invite you to a lecture by Jacek Stawiski where we will find out […]
Film screening and a meeting with Bernard Offen, a Holocaust Survivor
We would like to invite you to a meeting with Bernard Offen, who survived the ghetto, the Nazi German camps Plaszow and Auschwitz, and other concentration camps. The meeting will be preceded by a screening of one of the documentaries directed by Bernard Offen. The film is in Polish. The meeting will be held in […]
Concert: The Missing Part
The Missing Part is a duo created by Natalia Kwiatkowska and Robert Kapkowski (Cheap Tobacco) out of longing for lyrical and subtle sound. Natalia plays with her voice and easily finds herself in any musical genre; her voice transfers the listeners to a different world. Robert plays the acoustic guitar in a way that makes […]
“Karaimi w Koronie i na Litwie w XV-XVIII wieku” (“The Karaim in Poland and Lithuania in the 15th-18th C.”) – meeting with the author of the book, Prof. Stefan Gąsiorowski
Led by: Jacek Stawiski „The Karaim, although being a very small ethnic and religious group living in the territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as well as in interwar Poland, have long attracted the interest of not only academics but also artists (e.g. Eliza Orzeszkowa’s novel “Meir Ezofowicz”). Much has been written about them, but […]
Opening hours during holidays
Opening hours during holidays: Easter Sunday, 20.04.2025 – 12:00-18:00 Easter Monday, 21.04.2025 – 12:00-18:00
From the Land of Chagall. A meeting with Ewa Wieżnawiec, author of the book “O wilku mówiono w izbie”
Led by: Monika Ochędowska In a story filled with unusual phenomena, Ewa Wieżnawiec tells the tale of our part of the world. Though we are looking at it from the perspective of the Byelorussian village of Nauhalne, which is surrounded by swamps, we can observe the complicated history of the bloody lands of Eastern Europe. […]
“May ’81. An Exhibition of Photographs by Chris Schwarz” – guided tour led by the exhibition curator, Tomasz Strug
Chris Schwarz was a British photographer and the founder and first director of the Galicia Jewish Museum, which he established in 2004. His first visit to Poland took place many years before the opening of the Museum. However, in May 1981, he came here as a freelance photojournalist wanting to document the realities of the […]
