Memory Activism: the report

The study emerged out of the need to address the lack of information about the current status and scope of work of memory activists involved in Jewish heritage initiatives in Poland. This pilot study will allow us to map and estimate the scale of their work, the level of engagement and their motivations as well as good practices, challenges they’re facing and their needs against a backdrop of European activism.

Warszawa

MEETING OF STAKEHOLDERS - Będzin, Gliwice, Bytom

As part of networking memory activists and exchanging experiences, we visited Karolina and Piotr Jakoweńko from the Brama Cukermana Foundation in Będzin and met with local stakeholders from Upper Silesia & Dąbrowa Basin.

Będzin, Gliwice, Bytom

The Order of Violence. Difficult heritage of Getto Benches in Polish Universities.

The Ghetto Benches (segregated seating in Universities between Jews and Non-Jews) was an institutionalized form of discrimination against the Jewish community inspired by the activities during the interwar period of the right-wing nationalist organizations: All-Poland Youth, Camp of Greater Poland, and the National Radical Camp. In the 1930s, ethno-religious segregation of students of Jewish origin was intensified, for example, by forcing them to take certain seats in lecture halls.

Series of events accompanying the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign

Stories from the Warsaw Ghetto in a biographical perspective. History, experience, memory - The Holocaust in Warsaw and Breslau/Wrocław. Meadow of daffodils. Information sessions.

Wrocław

Future of the Past. New Technologies in Commemorative Practice

Zapraszamy na wydarzenie online "«Przyszłość Przeszłości». Nowe technologie wobec upamiętnień", które odbędzie się we wtorek 18 kwietnia o godz. 18:30.
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Commemorating the Victims of the Warsaw Ghetto - Warsaw, Okopowa

On this day, six remembrance walks, focused on the war-time history of the cemetery and the Ghetto Fighters, were conducted for six different groups. The culminating moment was gathering around the third, unknown grave, marked by us with a simple wooden marker in the form of a matzevah (Jewish tombstone).

Warsaw

Evaluation meeting

Internal evaluation meeting of the consortium partners and invited stakeholders.

Warszawa

Memory and Halakha (event in Polish)

Zachor (Hebrew for "remember") is used nearly 200 times in the Hebrew Bible, which is the foundation of the Jewish legal system. This was calculated by the historian Yosef Haim Yerushalmi, who in his book "Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory" put forward the thesis that it was the commandment of remembrance that played a key role in the process of preserving identity during the centuries of Jewish dispersion in the Diaspora.
The need for commemoration took on a new meaning after the Holocaust. However, it is not always obvious how to cultivate the memory of the victims in accordance with their tradition and halacha, i.e. Jewish religious law.

Online

Green commemoration. Postmemory practices

What does working with difficult heritage look like in practice? How are performative monuments created? How do you decolonize places after violence, bring out their post-memory dimension and restore agency to victims?

Online

STAKEHOLDERS MEETING – Negotiating Difficult Pasts

The meeting with director Marcin Wierzchowski and theater artist Michael Rubenfeld will be hosted by theater critic Jacek Wakar. The conversation will take place as part of the NeDiPa project stakeholder meeting.interesariuszy projektu NeDiPa.

Kraków

COMMUNITY BUILDING – WROCŁAW

Places of Difficult Memory – How to design, how to talk?

COMMEMORATION – PIKULE

Together we will commemorated of seven Jews from Modliborzyce, resting in the place of their forest hideout near the village of Pikule.

Pikule, gm. Janów Lubelski

Green Commemorations. Action through Art

An outdoor event presenting creative and participatory practices of transmitting the memory of places of difficult heritage in green space.

Kraków

CONFERENCE & A SERIES OF EVENTS ON “DIFFICULT HERITAGE”

Difficult Heritage. Jewish Breslauers and Other Local Stories, Contexts and Activities

Wrocław

Esther's Willow

Esther's Willow is a public memory project centering a planting of a white willow sapling in the former Esther’s Square, the location of the Great Synagogue of Chrzanów demolished in the 1970s. The artists' years-long process of research, collaboration, and making brought regional and local institutions, contemporary inhabitants, descendants, survivors, and their dead together to
mark, contemplate, mourn, enliven, and honor the square and the generations that surround/ed and fill/ed it.

Chrzanów

COMMEMORATION – NOWE TRZCIANO

Ceremony commemorating seven men aged about 30 and a woman about 20, Jewish escapees from the Bialystok ghetto

KICK-OFF

Warsaw