Poland in South Africa

The exhibition was presented during the celebration of Ukraine's Independence Day, as part of the "Race for Peace" street run organized on this occasion in the centre of Pretoria by the Ukrainian Embassy in Pretoria. The participants of the event could see the exhibition, read the comments of the authors of the project and learn more about the ongoing war. About 500 people participated in the event. The visitors unanimously emphasized that each of the works is a clear idea, each carries an extremely strong message, is a poignant childhood testimony of the war, and will also going to be remembered for a long time.

The aim of the exhibition is to show the tragedy of war seen through the eyes of a child by comparing historical and contemporary drawings by the youngest who lived and grew up during the war. The drawings by Polish children used for the exhibition were drawn after the war and they documented their experiences during World War II and the German occupation in 1939-1945. The drawings are kept in the Archives of New Records in Warsaw. Drawings of Ukrainian children are contemporary works related to the current war in Ukraine, collected on the Mom I see war website.

Photos: Grażyna Koorbhof/Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Pretoria