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“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 […]
Guided Tour: “The Women of Kazimierz”
Led by: Bartosz Wencel The Jewish women living in Kazimierz were a very diverse group. They had different occupations, belonged to various societal groups, and often had completely different political views and different attitudes towards Jewish tradition. They are also remembered in different ways – some are known personas, some are slightly forgotten, and most […]
Screening of a film and meeting with its director, Bernard Offen, a Holocaust Survivor
On March 13th, the anniversary of the liquidation of Krakow Ghetto, we would like to invite you to a meeting with Bernard Offen, a survivor of the ghetto and Nazi concentration camps, Plaszow and Auschwitz among others. The meeting will be preceded by a screening of one of the documentaries directed by Mr. Offen. The […]
“And So, Between Despair and Hope, I Remained in the Krakow Ghetto”. Family Accounts in the Light of Historical and Spatial Analyses
We would like to invite you to a seminar commemorating the 82nd anniversary of the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto, during which a research team from the Jagiellonian University of Krakow and the AGH University, led by Dr. Alicja Jarkowska, will depict selected accounts of Jewish families in a historical and spatial perspective. This is […]
March of Remembrance on the 82nd anniversary of the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto
The Annual March of Remembrance is a symbol of the memory of the centuries long Jewish history of our city: about people who created it, about the world that ceased to exist in the flames of the Holocaust. The March is a tribute to one quarter of pre-war Krakow’s population, who were sentenced to death […]
A guided tour through the area of the former Krakow Ghetto on the 82nd anniversary of its liquidation
Led by: Bartosz Wencel On March 13th, 1943 the Germans liquidated the Krakow ghetto. The ghetto was functioning for two years, from March 1941. During this short period the prisoners went through various stages: from trying to adapt to new circumstances, through hope of recreating – however limited – their prewar lives, until the tragic […]
A discussion surrounding the book “Oto widać i oto słychać. Świadkowie Zagłady w okupowanej Polsce”
We would like to invite you to a meeting on the book “Oto widać i oto słychać. Świadkowie Zagłady w okupowanej Polsce” (“It Is Seen and Heard. Witnesses of the Shoah in Occupied Poland”), the latest publication of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research (IFiS PAN). The book is a result of a few years […]
“O czym drzewa w Bieszczadach nie szumią. Ocalona z Sobiboru” – meeting with Krzysztof Potaczała, author of the book
Led by: Jacek Stawiski Krzysztof Potaczała, author of highly regarded non-fiction books on Bieszczady is focusing on the history of the only successful collective escape from the Sobibór death camp. He wants to find out what happened to a woman who, as a young girl, escaped from the extermination camp on October 14th, 1943, together […]
“May ’81. An Exhibition of Photographs by Chris Schwarz” – guided tour
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 […]
