Memory and Commemoration

Co-founder and director of The Urban Memory Foundation in Wrocław, dedicated to preserving the heritage of the pre-war Jewish community of Breslau. Experienced manager, fundraiser, cultural activist, and researcher in Judaic studies. She has collaborated with an Israeli-Palestinian educational organization and has a decade-long professional career in Brussels, specializing in event management and communication strategies involving EU programs and institutions. Holds a Master's degree in Political Science from the University of Wrocław and a Master's degree in Jewish Civilizations from the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg. Co-author of the publication "Breslau / Wrocław 1933–1949. Studien zur Topographie der Shoah".

Anthropologist, researcher, and co-author of the Laboratorim museum initiative and "Museums for the Climate". She is interested in the social role of cultural institutions and their relationships with audiences, specializing in the analysis and implementation of participatory strategies, audience research, and opening access to heritage resources. In her academic work, she focuses on studying memory cultures and the role of institutions in the institutionalization of discourses on the past. President of the Zapomniane Foundation, which focuses on finding and locating forgotten, unmarked graves of Holocaust victims.

Activist, curator, and cultural animator. For years, she has collaborated with Jewish organizations both domestically and abroad, creating innovative and original community, educational, and artistic projects. She is a co-founder of numerous Polish-Jewish cultural initiatives. Professionally, she coordinates Central and Eastern Europe for the Limmud organization, which focuses on grassroots Jewish education and unites 92 organizations worldwide. Since 2017, she has been a co-founder and co-curator of FestivALT.

President of the Cukerman's Gate Foundation. She graduated in cultural studies from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and is a certified guide in the Silesian Region. Karolina completed postgraduate studies at the Department of Judaic Studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She holds a teaching certificate from the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem. Since 2016, she has also been the director of the House of Memory of Jews of Upper Silesia (Museum in Gliwice).

A middle school teacher who began working at the Falstad Center five years ago. Currently serving as the Head of Education.

An expert in the field of fundamental rights with a background in history. Since 2015, he has been working at the European Commission. For four years, he served as the Deputy Coordinator for Combating Antisemitism and Supporting Jewish Life, acting as the focal point for Jewish communities and organizations, and advising the Commission on policy responses. He has held several positions in the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, the Directorate-General for Education and Culture, and the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs. From 2021 to 2023, he worked as the Program Manager for Citizens, Equality, Rights, and Values, the largest EU fund in history for human rights, and managed financial programs focusing on combating racism and antisemitism, fundamental rights, and European memory. Since 2023, he has been working as a Policy Specialist in the new Directorate-General for Technical Support Instrument, supporting judicial and public administration reforms in EU Member States.

Cultural animator and educator associated with the Białowieża Forest, researcher of Jewish history, and a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. From 2002 to 2016, she was a co-creator and co-host of the Jan Józef Lipski University of the People in Teremiski near Białowieża (program of the Jacek Kuroń Educational Foundation). She is the creator and director of the Barn Theater in Teremiski – a cultural institution in Podlasie, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2024. She is the author of the Virtual Museum of Jewish History in Białowieża (www.jewish-bialowieza.pl), co-author – along with director Joanna Troc – of the play "Neighbors Who Aren't There", based on stories collected by her, involving children and youth from Białowieża. She conducted an interview with David Waldshan, the only Jewish testimony from Białowieża in the collections of Yad Vashem and the Jewish Historical Institute. She initiated the installation of a monument and a plaque dedicated to the Jewish community of Białowieża, unveiled with the participation of descendants (2019). She was awarded the POLIN Award (2019), received the Memory Preservation Diploma for merits in saving and commemorating Jewish heritage in Poland (2020), and was honored in the 3rd edition of the Katarzyna and Janusz Miernicki Card Award for actions promoting historical memory serving civil society (2022). Since August 2021, she has been active as an activist in the Border Group. She is also a member of the activist group of the Forum for Dialogue Network. She works as an educator at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

A graduate in Theatre Studies from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. His interests lie in the intersections between theater, performative arts, and memory studies theories. He also explores research on the form of green memorials and the principles of Happy Cities. He investigates historical connections related to the processing of difficult heritage of historical sites significant to the Jewish community. A fan of multidirectional memory by Michael Rothberg and agonistic memory derived from the political and sociological assumptions of Chantal Mouffe. He collaborates with the Center for Memory Cultures Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

Absolwent teatrologii na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim w Krakowie. Przestrzeń jego zainteresowań stanowią związki między teatrem, sztukami performatywnymi a teoriami pamięcioznawczymi. Interesuje się także badaniami nad formą zielonych upamiętnień oraz założeniami Miast Szczęśliwych. Bada związki dziejowe związane z przepracowywaniem trudnego dziedzictwa historycznych obiektów bliskich dla społeczności żydowskiej. Miłośnik pamięci wielokierunkowej Michaela Rothberga oraz pamięci agonistycznej wyprowadzonej z politycznych i socjologicznych założeń Chantale Mouffe. Współpracuje z Ośrodkiem Badań nad Kulturami Pamięci przy Uniwersytecie Jagielloński w Krakowie.