FORUM - KAZIMIERZ

Presentation of the design for Ghetto Heroes’ Plaza in Podgórze, with Prof. Andrzej WYŻYKOWSKI, Chief Architect of Cracow and chairman of the design competition jury, and also representatives of the design studios that took part in the competition.

Polish Judaica – Time of Stones, Time of Life – slide show by Anna OLEJ-KOBUS and Krzysztof KOBUS.

Jazz concert performed by Gilad ROTH (saxophone, Israel), Asaf SIRKIS (percussion, Israel) and Maciej DOMARADZKI (bass guitar, Poland).



59th ANNIVERSARY
OF THE LIBERATION
OF KL AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU

Piotrków Trybunalski – Auschwitz – London – Melbourne – meeting with Ben HELFGOT (Great Britain).

Film showing: Stalwart in the face of persecution. The Jehovah’s Witnesses and Nazism. Introduction: Teresa WĄTOR-CICHY, author of the book Imprisoned for Faith. The Jehovah’s Witnesses in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau (in Polish), published by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Participants: Bernard CZOCHRA, Krzysztof LEWOWSKI and Remigiusz KRECZMER – members of the Watchtower Society.

Traces of history in Oświęcim – opening of an exhibition of art by deaf and hearing-impaired people from Giessen (Germany) and Warsaw, co-organized with the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim.

Chamber music concert performed by the Piera DADOMO and Vincenzo TORRI-CELLA Duo (guitar, mandolin, Italy) organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow.

THEOLOGY AND THE HOLOCAUST

Meeting with Prof. Maria ORWID, psychiatrist, moderated by Prof. Stanisław OBIREK SJ.

Opening of an exhibition of sculptures by Wanda ŁADNIEWSKA.

The word – a witness. A dictionary of the language of KL Auschwitz prisoners – meeting with Jochen AUGUST, Monika BARWIŃSKA, Jan MASŁOWSKI and Małgorzata WILK.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Zone – meeting with Marek RAWECKI, author of a book (in Polish) published under the same title.

Film showing: Kornblumenblau by Leszek WOSIEWICZ. Organized courtesy of the Karol Irzykowski Film Studio in Warsaw.