„Remembering the Holocaust in Poland” Webinar
20.01.2022
"Remembering the Holocaust in Poland" webinar was held on January 20, 2022, with the participation of Dr. Edyta Gawron, a historian and an Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Institute of Jewish Studies, Jakub Nowakowski, director of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Tomasz Kuncewicz, director of the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim, and Dariusz Popiela, Olympian, activist and founder of the Centrum foundation.
Classrooms Without Borders (CWB), in coordination with Tali Nates, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Genocide & Holocaust Centre, and in partnership with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Liberation 75, and the USC Shoah Foundation have embarked on a new innovative -Museums and Memorial series - where the educators highlight different angles of complex memory, grappling with the challenges faced in defining representation of both Lived Memory and Historical Memory.
As part of the project, experts try to answer the following questions: whether and how the world remembered the Holocaust and how it commemorates lost human lives. Attendees at the event discuss cultural identity, community responsibility and decision-making, as well as the ways in which individuals and nations responded, or failed to respond to the crimes of genocide. Polish speakers talked about their work, challenges, ongoing projects and exhibitions aimed at preserving the memory of the Holocaust and its victims. They emphasized the importance of restoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, their dignity, where "people, not numbers" count, the need to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust by name, and to promote knowledge and restore the memory of national minorities living in Poland. The Holocaust is a painful and tragic part of contemporary history and the European tradition that we must understand and protect from oblivion.
