JUDAICA FOUNDATION
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE
in Kazimierz, Cracow

JUDAICA FOUNDATION
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE
in Kazimierz, Cracow

PROGRAM REPORT 2001

Between January 1st and December 31st, 2001, 362 events took place at the Center for Jewish Culture in Kazimierz, Kraków, including 175 program events (lectures, book presentations, film showings, exhibitions, conferences, seminars and concerts), 166 visits of foreign groups, Polish groups and noted persons, and 21 commercial events.

LECTURES, MEETINGS

1/ Father Stanislaw MUSIAL SJ - Dabru Emet - Jewish Declaration on Christians and Christianity. (Day of Judaism - Encounters of Judaism and Christianity)

2/ Prof. Deborah WEISSMAN (Israel) - Jewish-Christian Dialogue in the Holy Land, organized jointly with the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw (Day of Judaism)

3/ Meeting with Rev. Prof. Michal CZAJKOWSKI and Dr. Stanislaw KRAJEWSKI - Co-Chairmen of the Council of Christians and Jews in Poland (Day of Judaism)

4/ Meeting with Prof. Józef SZAJNA - Józef Szajna and His World
(Anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp)

5/ Meeting commemorating the life and work of Prof. Jan ZACHWATOWICZ, followed by film entitled Jan Zachwatowicz by Antoni Krauze

6/ Meeting with Jerzy HALBERSZTAT - presentation of the "Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw" project and of the computerized data base of Polish Judaica

7/ Dr. Slawomir KAPRALSKI (Central European University in Warsaw) - Jews - Poles - Remembrance

8/ Book of Questions - evening of poetry by Edmond JABES, presented by Prof. Adam WODNICKI, poetry translator

9/ Stanislaw CIOSEK, former Polish Ambassador to Russia - My Mission in Moscow (1989-1996) (Democracy and Tolerance)

10/ Prof. Ewa LETOWSKA, former ombudsman - What Do Human Rights Teach People? (Democracy and Tolerance)

11/ Meeting with Prof. Shevah WEISS, Israeli Ambassador to Poland

12/ Jaroslaw ZÓLCIAK, architect - Commemorating the Concentration Camp in Plaszów. Possibilities for its Preservation

13/ Alina GRABOWSKA, journalist - Radio Free Europe in March 1968 (March '68 Anniversary)

14/ Father Stanislaw MUSIAL SJ - Yedvabne - Reflections of a Polish Priest (Encounters of Christianity and Judaism)

15/ Anda ROTTENBERG, art historian and art critic - The Art of Culture (Democracy and Tolerance)

16/ Meeting with Agnieszka ARNOLD, director of the film Neighbors Meeting conducted by Piotr LITKA.

17/ Rabbi David NOVAK - The Dabru Emet Statement and its Significance for Relations Between Jews and Christians

18/ Jerzy JARNIEWICZ, translator, literary critic, and editor of Literature of the World - In the Face of History. The Life and Work of Jerzy Kosinski (10th Anniversary of J. Kosinski's Death)

19/ Rev. Prof. Jerzy CHMIEL - The Bible - Archeology - Israel

20/ Father Stanislaw MUSIAL SJ, May 27th at the All Saints' Church in Warsaw (Encounter of Judaism with Christianity)

21/ Enrico VOLPE (Italy) - Neapolitan Songs - A Historical Review, organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

22/ Helena DATNER, Warsaw Jewish Community Jews in Poland on Holidays and Not Only (Bayit Hadash)

23/ Meeting with Prof. Shevah WEISS, Israeli Ambassador to Poland (Bayit Hadash)

24/ Prof. Jan WOLENSKI (The Jagiellonian University) Poles and Jews - Once Again? - Part One (Bayit Hadash)

25/ Dr. Tomasz GASOWSKI (The Jagiellonian University) Galicia as a Jewish Cradle (Bayit Hadash)

26/ Anna MIESZKOWSKA, author of the book about Marian Hemar From Lwów to London (Bayit Hadash)

27/ Prof. Hanna SWIDA-ZIEMBA, Warsaw University Yedvabne as a Challenge for Poles Today (Bayit Hadash)

28/ Prof. Natan WACHTEL, College de France Marrano Memories in Iberian America: Case Study (Bayit Hadash)

29/ Ryszard Marek GRONSKI Antoni Slonimski - Witness of His Time (Bayit Hadash)

30/ Prof. Adam ZERTAL, Haifa University The Bible and History. Joshua's Altar on Mount Ebal: The Bible, Archeology, Controversy (Bayit Hadash)

31/ Meeting with Puppa GARRIBBA, an Italian Holocaust survivor (Settimana della Cultura Ebraica - Week of Italian-Jewish Culture)

32/ Ryszard KAPUSCINSKI Citizens' Duties in a Multicultural World (Bayit Hadash-Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Annual Memorial Lecture)

33/ Ambassador Krzysztof MROZIEWICZ Terrorism of the New Generation (Democracy and Tolerance)

34/ Prof. Janusz DANECKI (Warsaw University) Islam vis a vis Other Monotheistic Religions (Kaleidoscope of Cultures: Polish Muslims)

35/ Prof. Jan WOLENSKI (The Jagiellonian University) Poles And Jews - Once Again? - Part Two

36/ Father Stanislaw MUSIAL SJ Jews, Christians and Muslims - Towards Each Other (Encounters of Judaism and Christianity)

37/ Meeting with Selim Mirza JUSZENSKI-CHAZBIJEWICZ, President of the Polish Tatar Society
(Kaleidoscope of Cultures: Polish Muslims)

38/ Meeting with Jadwiga NOWAKOWSKA, film director, author of documentaries about Polish Muslims
(Kaleidoscope of Cultures: Polish Muslims)

39/ Hava Alberstein's Di Krenice - presentation of CD by Dr. Przemyslaw PIEKARSKI

BOOK PRESENTATIONS

1/ Presentation of the book The Catholic Church in Poland and the Struggle Against Anti-Semitism: An Exchange of American and Polish Experiences, edited by Bohdan W. Oppenheim. The book is a collection of papers and proceedings from the conference of the same name, organized on June 14th, 2000, at the Center for Jewish Culture by the Judaica Foundation jointly with the Cardinal Bernardin Center in Chicago

2/ Presentation of the album Before They Perished…Photographs Found in Auschwitz, published by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim. Meeting with Avihu RONEN, Hano LOEWY, Zygmunt PLUZNIK and Krystyna OLEKSY. Meeting organized jointly with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim and the Goethe Institute in Cracow on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition in the former camp Sauna building in Birkenau

3/ Presentation of a book by Roma LIGOCKA entitled The Girl in the Red Jacket published by the ZNAK Publishing House. Meeting with the author, organized jointly with the ZNAK Publishing House, conducted by Katarzyna ZIMMERER (translator of the book) and Jerzy ILG, Editor-in-chief of ZNAK

4/ Presentation of a book entitled Cracow - Town of Kings, Town of Jews in the Drawings by Franciszek Turek with the participation of Rev. Mieczyslaw Turek, son of the painter

5/ Meeting with Agata ARASZKIEWICZ and Bozena UMINSKA, writers, authors of books about Jewish women, organized jointly with Crisis Intervention Society, as part of the Gender Studies program of the Jagiellonian University (Bayit Hadash)

6/ Presentation of the book Aleksander Hertz by Czeslaw MILOSZ. The Lecture on A. Hertz was the opening lecture of the Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Annual Memorial Lectures at the Center for Jewish Culture (Bayit Hadash)

7/ Presentation of the first contemporary Jewish translation of the Book of Genesis into Polish, organized jointly with the publisher of the translation - the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation (Bayit Hadash)

8/ Presentation of the book Israel by Prof. Jerzy TOMASZEWSKI and Prof. Andrzej CHOJNOWSKI, published by the TRIO Publishing House as part of the series The History of 20th-Century States

9/ Presentation of the book The History of the Roms (Gypsies) in the Old Polish Republic, 15th-18th Centuries by Prof. Lech MRÓZ, organized jointly with the Society of Polish Roms and Sinti

10/ Presentation of the book In the Garden of Memory by Joanna OLCZAK- RONIKIER and meeting with the author

FILM SHOWINGS

1/ Samson by Andrzej WAJDA. Introduction by Bartosz KWIECINSKI of the Institute of Audio-Visual Arts at the Jagiellonian University (Jewish Motifs in Polish Cinematography)

2/ 10 Commandments, Part VIII by Krzysztof KIESLOWSKI. Introduction by Prof. Tadeusz LUBELSKI of the Institute of Audio-Visual Arts at the Jagiellonian University (Jewish Motifs in Polish Cinematography)

3/ Warsaw Ghetto (BBC Documentary)

4/ Requiem for 500,000 by Jerzy BOSSAK and Waclaw KAZMIERCZAK. Introduction by Prof. Tadeusz LUBELSKI from the Institute of Audio- Visual Arts at the Jagiellonian University (Jewish Motifs in Polish Cinematography)

5/ Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising According to Marek Edelman by Jolanta DYLEWSKA. Introduction by Prof. Tadeusz LUBELSKI of the Institute of Audio-Visual Arts at the Jagiellonian University (Jewish Motifs in Polish Cinematography)

6/ The Wedding directed by Andrzej WAJDA, film showing of the play by S. Wyspianski on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the play's premiere

7/ Understanding Memory by Malgorzata IMIELSKA, produced by Polish Television in August 2000, during the Auf den Spuren des jüdischen Erbes in Galizien Summer Program

8/ Diamonds in the Snow by Mira Reym BINFORD

9/ He Who Is From My Nation by Krzysztof BUKOWSKI, script by Michal SOBELMAN (documentary film about Prof. Israel Gutman)

10/ Where is My Elder Son Cain? by Agnieszka ARNOLD.

11/ Neighbors by Agnieszka ARNOLD

12/ Jerzy Kosinski in the STU Theater by Franciszek PALOWSKI

13/ Showing of Israeli documentary films presented at the Cracow Short Film Festival: So Close, So Far by Tzipi TROPE and Sioma - A Visit to Belarus by Guy Shanan. Introduction by Prof. Tadeusz Lubelski, Director of the Festival

14/ The Sandglass by Wojciech Jerzy HAS (Bayit Hadash)

15/ The Train of Life by Radu Mihailenau
(Settimana della Cultura Ebraica - Week of Italian-Jewish Culture)

16/ Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni
(Settimana della Cultura Ebraica - Week of Italian-Jewish Culture)

17/ Children of Different Gods and The Culture of the Polish Tatars by Jadwiga NOWAKOWSKA
(Kaleidoscope of Cultures: Polish Muslims)

18/ Die Feuerprobe. Novemberpogrom 1938 by Erwin Leiser. Film showing organized jointly with the Goethe Institute in Cracow, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Kristallnacht

19/ Presentation of films made by students of the Jerusalem Film School,
an accompanying event of the ETIUDA Film Festival in Cracow.

20/ The Witnesses by Marcel LOZINSKI, and meeting with the filmmaker

21/ Undesirables by Adela Pleeva (Bulgaria)

22/ The Place of Birth by Pawel LOZINSKI, and meeting with the filmmaker

EXHIBITIONS

1/ Photographic exhibition by Grzegorz GALEZIA entitled Photos with Covered Ear

2/ Exhibition of paintings by Jakub SNIR (Israel), organized jointly with the Polish-Israeli Friendship Society in Warsaw

3/ Photographic exhibition by Grazyna MAKARA (Cracow) entitled Arch-womanhood

4/ Paintings on glass by Alina TOWARNICKA-ALLERHAND (Zakopane)

5/ Photographic exhibition by Monika KITA entitled Femina

6/ Photographic collage exhibition by Witold PAWLIK (Vienna) entitled Remembering Auschwitz, organized jointly with the General Consulate of the Republic of Austria in Cracow

7/ Exhibition of prints by Prof. Andrzej PIETSCH of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow

8/ Exhibition of paintings by Kalina DULKO (Nowy Bierun) and sculpture by Remigiusz DULKO (Oswiecim) .

9/ Photographic exhibition by Pawel KUBISZTAL (Cracow) entitled Windows of Kazimierz

10/ Photographic exhibition by Erwin SCHENKELBACH (Israel) entitled The Painted Bird, in memory of Jerzy KOSINSKI
(10th Anniversary of Jerzy KOSINSKI's death).

11/ Exhibition of conservation works by the Instituto per l'Arte e Restauro Palazzo Spinelli (Florence) entitled Arte su Arte, organized jointly with the Cracow Fair Office, the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow and the Arkore Institute in Warsaw

12/ Exhibition of Roma children's paintings from Jarovnice in Slovakia

13/ Exhibition organized by the Suwalki Gallery, the Amici di Tworki Foundation and the Miodowa Gallery in Cracow (art therapy presentation)

14/ Photographic exhibition by Mosze FRUMIN (Israel) entitled The Sea in Akko organized jointly with the Polish-Israeli Friendship Society in Warsaw

15/ Exhibition of paintings by Tithy ALEKSANDROWICZ (Israel)

16/ Exhibition of paintings by Boguslaw BACHORCZYK (Cracow) entitled Traces on the Sand

17/ Prof. Julian Aleksandrowicz - His Life and Work - photographic exhibition organized jointly with the Prof. Julian Aleksandrowicz Foundation in Cracow (Bayit Hadash)

18/ Exhibition of paintings by Franciszek TUREK (Bayit Hadash)

19/ Exhibition of photographs by Katarzyna NALEPA (France) entitled Being Inside the Frame (Bayit Hadash)

20/ Exhibition of photographs by Jacek CHORAZY (Cracow) entitled A Glance

21/ Photographic exhibition organized jointly with the Students' East European Circle of the the Jagiellonian University

22/ Exhibition of prints and objects by Marlene Vite LEON (Mexico) entitled At the Beginning, organized jointly with the Cervantes Institute in Warsaw .

CONFERENCES, SEMINARS

1/ KALEIDOSCOPE OF CULTURE - ROMS AND SINTI
Panel discussion about the situation of Roms and Sinti in Poland, with Andrzej MIRGA, Krystyna GIL (Association of Roma and Sinti Women), Father Stanislaw OPOCKI (National Ministry of Roms and Sinti) and Dr. Barbara WEIGL, moderated by Agnieszka SABOR. Discussion organized jointly with the Cracow Branch of the Polish Humanitarian Campaign Foundation

2/ Session with members of the European Club at Secondary School No. 1 in Sucha Beskidzka

3/ Panel discussion on the first contemporary translation of the Book of Genesis into Polish, with Czeslaw MILOSZ, Prof. Janusz DANECKI, Rabbi Sacha PECARIC, Prof. Ireneusz KANIA, Prof. Andrzej BOROWSKI and Rev. Andrzej KLOCZOWSKI

4/ How To Teach About the Holocaust - Conference for teachers from Poland and Lithuania, organized jointly with the London Jewish Cultural Centre, the Teachers Academy in Cracow and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum under the auspices of the Task Force for Holocaust Education

5/ Program letni Jewish - Christian Relations in Contemporary Europe. Case Study: Poland,
zorganizowany wspólnie z Centre for Jewish - Christian Relations Uniwersytetu Cambridge.

6/ Program letni Auf den Spuren des jüdischen Erbes in Galizien

CONCERTS

1/ Harp concert with Franziska HUHN (Germany)

2/ Concert performed by the HAUSOPERA TRIO (Italy) with Michele MO (flute), Alberto BOCCHINO (guitar) and Paola MOTTA (piano). Concert organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

3/ Concert performed by Marek WALAWENDER (Warsaw) as part of the series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture.

4/ Concert on the occasion of Grandmothers' Day and Grandfathers' Day, performed by students from the Music College in Cracow

5/ Concert of Mordechaj Gerbirtig's songs performed by the SHIR-AM Trio (Italy) with Faye NEPON (vocal), Igor POLESITSKY (violin/alto) and Mauro GROSSI (piano). Directed by Rudi ASSUNTINO, arranged by Joel HOFFMAN and Igor POLESITSKY

6/ Concert entitled Maurice Ravel - Songs and Poems performed by Mariusz KOLUCH (baritone), Agnieszka KOLODZIEJCZYK (soprano), and Maria RYDZEWSKA (piano)

7/ Guitar concert performed by Lukasz KUROPACZEWSKI, as part of the series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

8/ Chamber music concert performed by Ellen BRASLAVSKY (USA, piano) and Jeremy FINDLAY (Canada, cello)

9/ Chamber music concert performed by Krzysztof KLIMA (clarinet), Dorota IMIELOWSKA (cello) and Maria SZWAJGER-KULAKOWSKA (piano)

10/ Chamber music concert performed by Krzysztof POLONEK (Berlin, violin) and Barbara POLONEK (Berlin, piano)

11/ Guitar concert performed by Maria Esther GUZMAN BLANCO (Spain), organized jointly with the Cervantes Institute in Warsaw

12/ Concert performed by Dimitris REGGINOS (Cyprus) as part of the series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

13/ The Young Poland Movement's Poetry in Song performed by Klaudia ROMEK (soprano), Jacek OZIMKOWSKI (bass/baritone), Marek WIATR (tenor) and Barbara PENDERECKA (piano) on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the premiere performance of The Wedding by S. Wyspianski

14/ Guitar concert performed by Piotr TOMASZEWSKI (Warsaw) as part of the series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

15/ Jewish music concert performed by the JASCHA LIEBERMAN TRIO (Cracow), with Jascha LIEBERMAN (violin/alto), Jacek HOLUBOWSKI (accordion) and Roman SLAZYK (contrabass)

16/ Cello recital performed by Teresa KAMINSKA, Mariusz SIELSKI and Marek TOPOROWSKI

17/ Concert performed by Romuald ERENC (guitar), Zbigniew BRZYSZCZ-MAREK (tenor and soprano saxophone), as part of the series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

18/Concert performed by the COLLAGE TRIO (Warsaw) on the occasion of the anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel

19/ Chamber concert performed by Josep SANCHO (clarinet) and Bartlomiej KOMINEK (piano). Concert organized jointly with the Cervantes Institute in Warsaw

20/ Piano recital by Regina ZWIEDRIE (Saint Petersburg), organized by law students from the Jagiellonian University

21/ Concert performed by Roma and Sinti children from Jarovnice in Slovakia. Organized jointly with Cracow Branch of the Polish Humanitarian Campaign Foundation

22/ Chamber music concert performed by Jeremy FINDLAY (cello, Canada) and the CRACOW CELLO TRIO

23/ Concert of Neapolitan songs performed by Alba PIERRE (Italy), organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

24/ Piano recital by Natalia WASIDLOWA (Cracow)

25/ Guitar music concert performed by Carlos PEREZ (Chile), organized jointly with the Cervantes Institute in Warsaw

26/ Piano recital by Pawel KUBICA (Cracow)

27-31/ Chamber music concerts within the framework of the International Cracow Composers Festival (5 concerts)

32/ Chamber music concert as part of the International Andrzej Panufnik Festival in Cracow

33/ Chamber music concert performed by students of the Music College in Cracow as an accompanying event of the International Andrzej Panufnik Festival

34/ Concert of Jewish music performed by the KROKE TRIO from Cracow (Bayit Hadash)

35/ Concert for percussion performed by Tomasz SOBANIEC and Ryszard HABA (Cracow) (Bayit Hadash)

36/ Guitar music concert performed by Lukasz KUROPACZEWSKI as part of the series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

37/ Concert of Jewish music performed by the DI GALITZYANER KLEZMORIM group (Cracow) (Bayit Hadash)

38/ Hommage a Abel Carlevaro - guitar music concert dedicated to Maestro Abel Carlevaro, who died in July 2001 (Bayit Hadash)

39/ Piano recital performed by Beata BILINSKA (Bayit Hadash)

40/ Concert of Sephardic music performed by Anna JAGIELSKA and Marta STANISLAWSKA, organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

41/ The Best of Marian Hemar's Songs - concert performed by actors of the Ludowy Theatre in Cracow (Bayit Hadash)

42/ Guitar concert performed by Andrea VETTORETTI, organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

43/ Leopold Kozlowski and Friends - concert of Jewish songs performed by Leopold KOZLOWSKI, Marta BIZON, Katarzyna JAMRÓZ, Katarzyna ZIELINSKA and Andrzej RÓG (Bayit Hadash)

44/ Chamber music concert performed by the CONCERTO LAMELLI youth orchestra (Cracow)

45/ Concert performed by Grzegorz KRAWIEC (guitar) and Pawel ZALEJSKI (violin) as part of the series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

46/ Concert performed by LIBERTRIO (Bialystok) on the occasion of the 8th anniversary of the opening of the Center for Jewish Culture

47/ Chamber music concert performed by Klaudia ROMEK (soprano), Agnieszka MONASTERSKA (mezzo-soprano), Jacek OZIMKOWSKI (baritone) and Barbara PENDERECKA (piano)

48/ Guitar concert performed by Adam ZALAS as part of the series of Guitar Concerts at the Center for Jewish Culture

49/ Jewish music concert performed by the DI GALITZYANER KLEZMORIM group during the Przemysl Autumn Music Festival

50/ Modern & Ethno - concert performed by Mariusz KOLUCH, Anna SLIWA and Joanna STRÓZ

51/ The Lost Compositions - chamber music concert performed by the CONCERTO LAMELLI youth orchestra (Cracow)

52/ Chamber music concert performed by DUO PEPICELLI (Italy), organized jointly with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cracow

53/ Concert of synagogue music and Jewish songs performed by the SYNAGOGUE CHOIR from Leipzig, Germany

54/ Jazz music concert performed by pianist Adam MAKOWICZ (New York)

55/ New Year's Eve concert performed by the CONCERTO LAMELLI youth orchestra (Cracow)

OTHER EVENTS

1/ - 3/ Postcard auction organized by the RARA AVIS Antiquarian Book Store in Cracow (three times)

4/ - 6/ Book auction organized by the RARA AVIS Antiquarian Book Store in Cracow (three times)

7/ Memorial ceremony organized jointly with the Association for the Protection of Majdanek on the anniversary of the liquidation of the Cracow ghetto

8/ MARCH OF REMEMBRANCE on the occasion of the 58th anniversary of the liquidation of the Cracow ghetto, organized jointly by the Judaica Foundation, the Polish-Israeli Friendship Society, the Festival of Jewish Culture Society and the Cracow Dialogue Club Association

9/ Workshop for the Second Generation of Holocaust Children Society, with Prof. Maria ORWID

10/ Meeting of the Righteous Among the Nations Society

11/ - 14/ Meetings of Cracow Dialogue Club Association (four times)

15/ Meeting of the Cracow Tour - Guides Society

16/ Lectures for the LEXIA International Program in Cracow

17/ Jewish dance workshops for members of the Second Generation of Holocaust Children Society

18/ Meeting with Mike STANER, a Holocaust survivor, for a German student group

19/ 5th International At Home Ethnic TV Festival

20/ Yad Vashem Award Medal Ceremony, organized jointly with the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw

21/ Memorial ceremony for high school students, organized jointly with the Association for the Protection of Majdanek

22/ Jazz music workshop for music school students by Adam MAKOWICZ

In addition, the Center for Jewish Culture has been a venue for Polish and foreign groups to meet with Jewish and Polish survivors.

COMMERCIAL EVENTS

1 - 4/ Training for PepsiCo Corp. staff (four times)

5/ Board meeting of BWR Bank in Cracow

6/ Training for BWR Bank staff

7/ Conference organized by the RT Hotels chain in Cracow

8/ Training organized by Capital Management Poland S.A.

9/ Presentation of printers and plotters by the Plot System Company

10/ Seminar organized by the Partnership for Environment Foundation

11/ Conference organized by Polish Investment Projects of Cracow

12/ Training organized by the SKK Company

13/ Presentation organized by the Meeting Factory of Cracow

14/ Conference on AIDS organized by the Regional Center for Social Policy in Cracow

15/ Training for teachers from Sweden

16/ Presentation organized by the Immergas Poland Company

17/ Presentation organized by the AC Nielsen Company

18/ Presentation organized by the PPHU Alces Company

19/ Training organized the Amber-Tour Company

20/ Seminar organized by the BP Campio Company

21/ Training organized by the OST Gromada Company

VISITS BY NOTED PERSONS

1/ Andrzej Urbanczyk, Member of the Polish Parliament

2/ Jerzy Stankiewicz, Director of the Cracow Composers Society

3/ Hans Golombek, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Warsaw

4/ Simone Hilfstein Scheumann, New Cracow Friendship Society

5/ Everardo Corona, Charge d' Affaires of the Mexican Embassy in Warsaw

6/ Janusz Postolko, Honorary Consul of Mexico in Cracow

7/ Ambassador Jerzy Bahr, Polish Ambassador to Lithuania

8/ Prof. Erik Dauzenroth, Giessen

9/ Group of journalists from French TV stations

10/ Jürgen Gnauck, Prime Minister of Türingen, Germany

11/ Andrzej Sepiol, Deputy Marshal of Malopolska Province

12/ Michael Handelzats

13/ Etgar Lefkovits, Dallas

14/ Prof. Marek Jassem, Bydgoszcz

15/ Dr. Mira Brichto, R'fa-aye-nu Society, Cincinnati

16/ Heide Simonis, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

17/ Guests of the Polish Embassy in Copenhagen

18/ Karol Zenwirt, Canada

19/ Rabbi David Novak, Chicago

20/ Jolanta A. Drzewiecka, Washington State University

21/ Prof. Viktoria Hertling, Director, Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Peace Studies in Reno, Nevada

22/ Minister Marek Szymanski, Advisor to the President of the Polish Republic

23/ Tadeusz Prokopiuk, Director of the Cracow office of the Citizens' Committee for Restoration of Historical Monuments

24/ Group of Danish museum directors -
visit organized by the Polish Embassy in Copenhagen and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw

25/ Finn Andersen, Director of Danish Cultural Institutes Abroad

26/ Magda Vasarjova, Slovakian Ambassador to Poland

27/ Helena Jacosova, Director of the Slovakian Institute in Warsaw

28/ Helmut Schuchardt, The Center for Political Education in Türingen

29/ Pawel Novak, a journalist, Radio Zurnal in Prague

30/ Jan Melichar, correspondent, Czech Information Agency

31/ Dr. Edward Kossol, Geneva

32/ Dr. Joachim Rogall, Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart

33/ John Williams, Australia

34/ Prof. Leon Kieres, Institute for National Memory

35/ Joseph O'Keefe SJ, Boston College

36/ Prof. Stanley Blejwas, Member of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Board

37/ Rev. Canon Michael Ipgrave, Leicester, Great Britain

38/ Paul B. Uebbing, German Consul in Cracow

39/ Dena Geibert, journalist, The Warsaw Voice magazine

40/ Prof. Gideon Forster, Hebrew University in Jerusalem

41/ Group of MP's from the European Parliament in Brussels

42/ Erwin Starnitzky, Counselor - Minister from the German Embassy in Warsaw

43/ Dr. Herman Bünz, Director of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Office in Warsaw

44/ Dr. Kurt Hengel from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs

45/ Prof. Ludwig Podoshin, Haifa University

46/ Pastor Friedrich Magirus, Leipzig

47/ Prof. Janine P. Holc, Department of Political Sciences, University of Baltimore

48/ Francisco José Cruz Gonzales, Mexican Ambassador to Poland

49/ Josep Maria de Sagarra, Director of the Cervantes Institute in Warsaw

50/ Grietje Keller, journalist from Amsterdam

FOREIGN GROUPS OF VISITORS

1/ Group of students from Cambridge, Great Britain

2/ Group of students from Leipzig

3/ Group of students from Dresden

4/ Group of students from Germany

5/ Group from Denmark

6/ Group of students from Germany

7/ Group of actors from the Japanese Theatre in Tokyo

8/ Jewish group from Dniepropietrowsk, Ukraine

9/ Group of American students studying in Prague

10/ Group of students from Great Britain

11/ Group of students from Hanover

12/ Group of students from the Central European Educational Tour, U.S.A

13/ Group from Germany

14/ Group of German students

15/ Group of students from Israel

16/ Group of volunteers from Cologne

17/ Group of high - school students from Great Britain

18/ Yeshiva students from the U.S.A and Israel

19/ Group of students from Israel

20/ Group from Germany

21/ Group from Munich

22/ Group of German students

23/ Group from the Evangelical Church in Hamburg

24/ Participants in the Orthodoxy's Confrontation with Modernity in Poland seminar, organized by the R'fa-aye-nu Society from Cincinnati

25/ Group of German youth from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

26/ Group of Swiss doctors

27/ Group of youth from Berlin

28/ Students of Alma College, U.S.A

29/ High school students from Berlin

30/ Group of German students

31/ Group from Germany

32/ Group of pilgrims from Austria

33/ Group of teachers from Belarus

34/ Group of high-school students from Berlin

35/ Members of the Rotary Club from Hamburg

36/ Group of psychiatrists from the U.S.A., guests of the Psychiatric Clinic of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow

37/ Group of students from Erfurt

38/ Group of Protestant pastors from Hassle, Germany

39/ Jewish group from the U.S.A.

40/ Jewish group from the U.S.A.

41/ Group from the Rockefeller Foundation - guests of the Batory Foundation

42/ Group of students from Wiesbaden and Frankfurt/Main

43/ Group of students from the U.S.A.

44/ Group from Baden-Wirtemberg, Germany

45/ Group of teachers and tour leaders from the Yad Vashem Institute

46/ Group of Jewish journalists from the U.S.A.

47/ Group from the National Polish American - Jewish American Council

48 - 50/ American group from the Elders Hostel (three times)

51/ Group of volunteers of the Peace Service in Germany

52/ Group of American students from the Jagiellonian University Summer School

53/ German group from Berlin

54/ German group from Bildungswerk in Frankfurt

55/ Group of German high-school students from the Rudolf Steiner School in Hagen

56/ Group of students from Israel

57/ Group of Romanian teachers

58/ Group of Austrians from the Renner Institute in Vienna

59/ Group of Germans from Hamburg

60/ Group of Israelis from the Nir-Oz kibbutz

61/ Group of German youth from Frankfurt

62/ Group of German tourists from Kassel

63/ Group of journalists from Berlin and Hamburg

64/ Church choir from Dresden

65/ Group of librarians from Düsseldorf

66/ Group of tourists from Düsseldorf

67/ International group of youths, guests of the KARTA-Foundation

68/ Group from Bildungswerk in Düsseldorf

69/ Group of German students visiting the Jagiellonian University

70/ Group of students from Stuttgart

71/ Choir from Hamburg

72/ Group of German high-school students

73/ Group of German students

74/ Group of high-school students from Munich

75/ Group of high-school students from Jerusalem

76/ Group of Jewish youth from Metz, France

77/ Group of high-school students from Erkner near Berlin

78/ Group of political leaders from the U.S.A.

79/ Group of German and Czech students

80/ Group of monument protection administration professionals staff from Ukraine

81/ Group of high-school students from Berlin

82/ Jewish group from Australia

POLISH GROUPS OF VISITORS

1/ High-school students from Tychy

2/ High-school students from Dabrowa Górnicza

3/ Group of students

4/ High-school students from Kamienna Góra

5/ High-school students from Warsaw

6/ Group of students from the Jagiellonian University

7/ Group of students from Nowodworski High-School in Cracow

8/ Group of students from Sociology Department of Silesian University in Katowice

9/ High-school students from Cracow

10/ High-school students from Cracow

11/ Teachers from Cracow, participants in the European Dimension of the Education seminar

12/ Group of students of the Private Junior High-School in Dabrowa Górnicza

13/ High-school students from Gliwice

14/ Primary school students from Bukowsko

15/ Group of students from Warsaw

16/ High-school students from Opole

17/ High-school students from Skarzysko-Kamienna

18/ Group of patients of the Psychiatric Clinic in Cracow

19/ Group of members of the Polish-Israeli Friendship Society in Katowice

20/ Group of high school students from Cracow

21/ Group of high school students from Cracow

22/ Group of high school students from Katowice

23/ Group of nuns from a convent in Cracow

24/ Group of high school students from Dabrowa Górnicza

25/ Group of monks from a monastery in Cracow

26/ Group of blind children from Cracow

27/ Group of high school students from Cracow

28/ Group of high school students from Cracow

29/ Group of high school students from Bochnia

30/ Group of high school students from Szczecin

31/ Group of youths from Warsaw

32/ Group of students from Silesian University in Katowice

33/ Group of high school teachers from southern Poland

34/ Group of high school teachers from Cracow

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