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Remembrance and the Halakha - how to commemorate while respecting Jewish religious law?
- Introduction - Aleksandra Janus (Zapomniane Foundation)
- Lecture - Aleksander Schwarz (Zapomniane Foundation, Rabbinical Commission for Cemeteries)
- Halacha: what is it? Jewish law in relation to cemeteries, traditional graves, war burial grounds, mass graves, and the relocation of graves.
- Methods of non-invasive examination of cemeteries.
- Archeology & respecting the guidelines of the Rabbinical Commission
- Architectural designs for Jewish cemeteries, securing remains and tombstones
- Q&A

The webinar consists of the following presentations:
- The concept of green commemorations and specific examples of its implementation - Dr. Aleksandra Janus (Zapomniane Foundation)
- In search of a new language for exhibitions about the Holocaust. Example of the "Roots of the Uprising. Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto" exhibition, marches of remembrance, outdoor botanical installations, plants as witnesses and participants in history - Franciszek Bojańczyk (Jewish Historical Institute)
- Jewish heritage of Wrocław - the cemetery at ul. Gwarna. "Hidden" cemetery and green commemoration - ideas, challenges and difficult legacy, feld research, cooperation with the local community - Aga Jabłońska (Urban Memory Foundation)
- Green commemorations: the "Ester's Willow" project and the importance of green commemorations for the descendants and inhabitants of the city, the "Medicinal plants of Płaszów" project (at the site of the former concentration camp in Krakow) and the potential of herbal workshops - Magda Rubenfeld (FestivAlT)

The material discusses four case studies:
- Case study 1. Norway, Falstad Center - former Nazi prison-camp, workshops for students and cooperation with schools. Promoting democratic values and human rights, education about minorities and genocide - Mats Jørgen Nesjø
- Case study 2. Kraków, Płaszów. Faro Convention about heritage communities. Commemorating the site of the former KL Plaszow concentration camp: "Medicinal plants of Płaszów" project, artistic interventions with the participation of the local communities - Magda Rubenfeld (FestivALT)
- Case study 3. Wrocław, Gwarna cemetery: archival research about “non-existing/hidden” cemetery and artistic interventions with the participation of the local communities - Aga Jabłońska (Urban Memory Foundation)
- Case study 4. Będzin: example of grass-rooted local activism: bringing back the memory about Jewish community from the pre-war Będzin - Piotr Jakoweńko (The Cukerman’s Gate Foundation)

Monika Koszyńska shares recommendations and tips for education about World War II and the Holocaust. Her presentation touches on topics such as: materials for teachers, educators and parents; film, literature and artificial intelligence in education about the Holocaust, social integration and anti-discrimination; recommended websites and how to use the; education adapted to the age of students.

Remembering Upper Silesia and its multiculturalism.
- The Silesian Theater, Zagłębie Theater and the memory of the complex history of the region - Karolina Jakowieńko (Cukerman's Gate Foundation), Józef Łagierski (FestivALT, UJ)
- Discovering Jewish stories from Rybnik. Amateur performance "Gehinom" directed by Katarzyna Chwałek (SAFO Theater). Amateur theater as social activism. Małgorzata Płoszaj (writer)

Speakers discuss such issues as:
- Commemorating the ghetto benches and other forms of discrimination in the 1930s. Various forms of commemoration. Transition: from commemorative plaques to anti-discrimination practices aimed at shaping an inclusive society - Dr hab. Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw)
- Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv and ghetto benches - Dr. Ewa Bukowska-Marczak (Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
- Ghetto benches at the Jagiellonian University - Prof. Ph.D. Grażyna Kubica-Heller (Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University)
- Academic values in building civil society. The ghetto benches and racism. The role of the university in shaping an inclusive society and counteracting stigmatization, segregation and persecution. Anti-discrimination policies. - Prof. Ph.D. Beata Kowalska (Ombudsman for Academic Rights and Values of the Jagiellonian University).

At the end of the material there is also a Q&A with the audience with: Prof. Ph.D. Przemysław Żukowski (Jagiellonian University Archives), Prof. Ph.D. Grażyna Kubica-Heller, Prof. Ph.D. Beata Kowalska, Dr Ewa Bukowska-Marczak, Dr hab. Joanna Wawrzyniak.

- Intro: What is digital commemoration? What opportunities does it give us?
- Matzeva 3D project: The use of 3D scanning technology in commemoration, conservation of monuments and historical research - the example of Wrocław Jewish cemeteries - Aga Jabłońska (Urban Memory Foundation) & Mariusz Librowski (Spark)
- 3D matzevot: digital technologies (3D graphics) used in the reconstruction of non-existent matzevot from the cemetery on ul. Gwarna in Wrocław - Aga Jabłońska (Urban Memory Foundation) & Mariusz Librowski (Spark)
- Cemetery on Lotnicza Street in Wrocław & the Haddas family - Daniel Ljunggren (Technische Universität Dresden)
- The Krimke family and Gertrud Oyres (1876 - 1923) - Dr. Alan Wiess (Breslau is watching from under the ground)

- Debate on multidirectional memory in the context of theater. The role of theater in civil society - Aleksandra Kumala (PhD student at the Jagiellonian University), Michał Zadara (director and set designer), Michael Rubenfeld (director, actor, producer), Łukasz Chodkowski (playwright, director)
- Debate about interventionist theater, its reception and audience: Aleksandra Kumala (PhD student at the Jagiellonian University), Michał Zadara (director and set designer), Michael Rubenfeld (director, actor, producer), Łukasz Chodkowski (playwright, director)
- Violence in theater. Justice as a form of commemoration. Aleksandra Kumala (PhD student at the Jagiellonian University), Michał Zadara (director and set designer), Michael Rubenfeld (director, actor, producer), Łukasz Chodkowski (playwright, director)
- Multidirectional memory - theory. Multidirectional memory and theater. Memory, art and politics - Katarzyna Bojarska (SWPS)
- Debate on multidirectional theater. New theater and post-launch missions. Michał Zadara (director and set designer), Michael Rubenfeld (director, actor, producer), Łukasz Chodkowski (playwright, director), Magda Rubenfeld (FestivALT), Józef Łagierski (FestivALT, Jagiellonian University).