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Warsaw. Nonviolent Communication Approach in Adult Education in Historical Museums and Memorial Sites – International Project of the POLIN Museum
4th May 2022
The POLIN Museum in cooperation with partners from France, Latvia and North Macedonia is implementing a project under the Erasmus + Program.
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Virtual Connections to Material Jewish Heritage in Poland
2nd December 2021
New project from Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland
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Warsaw. Cemetery description and marking project 2021
22nd October 2021
Warsaw. Cemetery description and marking project 2021
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About the project
Shtetl became a symbol of Jewish life before the Holocaust. The clusters of wooden houses marked by mezuzahs, shops, schools and synagogues for a busy week resounded with Yiddish so that on Friday evening the inhabitants could celebrate the Sabbath, engulfing in the smell of kugel and cholent and in the sounds of niguns. By writing down their history in the Virtual Shtetl we want to pay homage to the constellations of Jewish towns in the lands of the former Polish Commonwealth.
Gela Seksztajn, painter in the ghetto
The testament of Gela Seksztajn, her autobiography and drawings were hidden in the secret Ringelblum Archive.
Stefania Wilczyńska, head of the children orphanage in the ghetto
She was a head of the orphanage at 92 Krochmalna Street, the closest collaborator of Janusz Korczak.
Anna Braude-Heller stayed with her patients until the end of her life
Director and head of the infant ward in the hospital located in the ghetto, who stayed with her patients until the end of her life