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The Museum with Its Core Exhibition Is an Agent of Transformation in Poland and the World THE GRAND OPENING The Museum with its Core Exhibition is an agent of transformation in Poland and the world. 1 “We continually repeat that Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a museum of life, not death. Most Jews in Poland and Europe were murdered, but our history remains, and continues. After the war, attempts were made to erase that history. The Museum’s mission is to tell that story anew, to fill the void. This is something we all need because there is no history of Jews without Poland, and no history of Poland without Jews.” - Marian Turski Chairman of the Museum Council, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland 2 “Twenty-one years, hundreds of people, dozens of projects, many moments of joy, but also doubt. Today we can say that the most difficult, the most turbulent phase of the creation of the Museum is behind us. Before us is the next step, when the institution starts to live its own life; the work is released from its creator and takes on as many meanings as there are audiences. It remains for me to hope that the Museum will surpass all the expectations that our founders imagined.” - Piotr Wiślicki Chairman of the Board, Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland 3 “The creation of the Museum is part of a wider and extraordinary process of restoring the memory of Polish Jews. This process involves hundreds if not thousands of initiatives in the fields of science, culture, heritage, and commemoration. All these initiatives express the conviction that is the basis for this Museum: that the history of Polish Jews is an inseparable and magnificent part of Poland’s history.” - Prof. Dariusz Stola Director, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews 4 A DREAM COME TRUE … The Core Exhibition, a 1000-year history of Polish Jews, opens to wide acclaim. We wish to express our deepest appreciation to everyone who made this possible. Thousands of guests from across the globe took part in the Grand Opening on October 26-29th. The President of Poland was joined by the President of Israel and state officials from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Norway. Among the distinguished guests were museum donors and representatives of Jewish communities in Poland and abroad. This album captures this historic moment in words and images. 5 DONORS DAY 1. From right: Distinguished Benefactor Jan Kulczyk, Founding Benefactor 6 Hon. Tad Taube, Core Exhibition Program Director Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt- DONORS DAY Gimblett, POLIN Museum Director Prof. Dariusz Stola. 2. From right: Ewa Markowicz, Founding Benefactor Monica Markowicz, Clara Markowicz. 3. First row: Clara Markowicz and Geoffrey Rolat. Second row, from right: Museum donor Krzysztof Rozen, Andrzej Ścisłowski, Managing Partner KPMG – Museum donor; Stine Andresen and Ingrid Schulerud, EEA - Norway Grants – Distinguished Benefactor. 1. From right: Museum donor Samantha Rolat Asulin, Museum Council member Małgorzata Niezabitowska, Roman Polański, Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera General Director Waldemar Dąbrowski; Second row from right: Museum donors Andrzej and Małgorzata Rojek. 2. 3. 1. 2. 7 DONORS DAY 4. 1. From left: Mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Małgorzata Omilanowska, Marian Turski, Piotr Wiślicki. 2. From left: Foundation, Board Members: Richard Atkinson, Richard Greene, Anita Friedman. 3. Mayor of Warsaw and Minister of Culture and National Heritage received a gift from the Association of the JHI. 4. Distinguished Benefactors, from right: Krzysztof Miszczak, Director, Board Member - Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, Helen Tramiel, Jeanette Neubauer, Ygal Ozechov, Tomek Ulatowski. 3. 8 DONORS DAY 1. Minister Małgorzata Omilanowska and Marian Turski. 2. Founding Benefactor Victor Markowicz. 1. 3. Distinguished Benefactors Anita Friedman and Rosalie Chris Lerman. 2. Piotr Wiślicki and Distinguished Benefactor Helen Tramiel 3. 9 Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-GImblett thanked all donors to the capital campaign DONORS DAY for financing the Core Exhibition and presented an exclusive gift… “The Museum of the History of Polish Jews is part of the very history that it presents. It is an agent in that history and not simply a mirrored reflection of it. Our goal is to create an exhibition that is memorable. To be memorable, it must be emotional, but to be worthy of being memorable, it must be thought provoking.” - Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Core Exhibition Program Director ... a replica of the 12th century bracteat. 10 DONORS DAY Donors wall designed by Bad Design: Katarzyna Kunkiel and Kuba Tkaczyk. 11 DONORS DAY Donors wall designed by Bad Design: Katarzyna Kunkiel and Kuba Tkaczyk. 2. 1. Grażyna Pawlak – 1993-96 chief coordinator 12 of the Museum project on behalf of the Association of the JHI, director of the Prof. Moses Schorr DONORS DAY Foundation. 2. Distinguished Benefactors Ygal Ozechov and Jeanette Neubauer. 3. From left: Distinguished Benefactor Irene Pletka, Director Dariusz Stola, Małgorzata Niezabitowska. 1. 3. 13 DONORS DAY 1. 2. 1. Minister of Culture and National Heritage Małgorzata Omilanowska. 2. Chairman Piotr Wiślicki. 3. Press briefing. From left: Marian Turski and Distinguished Benefactors: Hon. Tad Taube, Corinne Evens, Sigmund A. Rolat, Jan Kulczyk, Victor Markowicz and Piotr Wiślicki. 4. Director Dariusz Stola and Shana Penn, Executive Director of Taube Philanthropies – 3. 4. Distinguished Benefactor. 1. 2. 14 DONORS DAY 1. Founding Benefactor Sigmund A. Rolat. 2. From left: Tomasz Nowakowski and Dominique Lesage, Orange Polska – Distinguished Benefactor. 3. From right: Distinguished Benefactor Aleksander Goldberg, Anna Seitz-Wichłacz, Zev Furst, 3. Deborah Furst, Marcin Dackiewicz. 15 DONORS DAY 1. 2. 1. Waldemar Dąbrowski and Lawrence Perelman. 2. From left: Roman Kent, Treasurer, Claims Conference - Distinguished Benefactor; Stanlee Stahl, Executive VP, The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous; Director Dariusz Stola. 3. Paule Maarek, European Committee for the Support of the Museum and Maurice Skornik, Federation des Sociétés Juives de France – Museum donor. 4. Distinguished Benefactors Tomek and Żanna Ulatowscy. 5. Tomek Ulatowski with daughters. 6. From right: Distinguished Benefactor Jan Kulczyk and Jarosław Sroka, 3. Board Member at Kulczyk Holding; Peter Jassem, Canadian Committee for the Support of the Museum. 6. 5. 4. 1. Piotr Wiślicki and Aleksander Kwaśniewski, 16 President of Poland 1995-2005. DONORS DAY 2. Geoffrey Rolat and Jacky Goldman, North American Council of the Museum. 3. Museum donors Julian and Fay Bussgang. 1. 3. 2. 1. From right: Prof. Hanoch Gutfreund, Israeli Committee for the Support of 17 the Museum and Dov Tadmor, European Committee for the Support of the Museum. DONORS DAY 2. From right: Chief Rabbi of Wrocław Tyson Herberger; Rabbi Yisroel Lew – Chabad Bloosmbury, London; Rabbi Mendel Lew, United Synagogue, London. 3.From right: Krzysztof Kasprzyk, Sławomir Grünberg, Berel Rodal. 4.Jan Kulczyk and Piotr Wiślicki. 1. 2. 4. 3. 1. Henryka Bochniarz, President of Boeing 18 International CEE – Museum donor. DONORS DAY 2.From left: Paweł Potoroczyn, Director of Adam Mickiewicz Institute – Museum donor; Jonathan Brent, Director of YIVO; Museum Director Dariusz Stola. 3.Center: Jerzy Warman, North American Council of the Museum and Museum donors Sylvia and Avi Safer. 4. From left: Distinguished Benefactor Aleksander Goldberg and Museum donor Nimrod Ariav. 1. 4. 3. 2. 19 DONORS DAY 1. 1. Distinguished Benefactors Jeanette Neubauer and Krzysztof Miszczak, Director, Board Member, Foundation for Polish-German 2. Cooperation – Distinguished Benefactor. 2. From left: Museum donors: Anna Podniesińska, Irena Szołomicka- Orfinger and Henryk Orfinger. 3. Shannie Ross and Jan Chodakowski, British Committee for the Support of the Museum. 4. From right: Jeff Farber, CEO of the Koret Foundation, Shana Penn, Hon. Tad Taube. 5. From left: Mirosław Nizio, Rainer Mahlamäki, Ilmari Lahdelma, 4. Maria Mahlamäki. 5. 4. 3. 20 DONORS DAY 1. 2. 1. From left: Victor Markowicz, Ewa Markowicz, Clara Markowicz, Monica Markowicz. 2. Museum donors Yitzhack Asulin and Avi Safer. 3. 3.Sylvia Safer and Alon Goldman, North American Council of the Museum. 21 DONORS DAY 2. 1. 1. Ruth Lévy and Quentin Kopp. 2. From left: Piotr Wiślicki, MEP Michał Boni, Tomasz Thun-Janowski, Head of Warsaw Culture Office. 3. From left: Prof. Julius H. Schoeps, Vice Chairman, German Committee for the Support of the Museum and Edward Serotta, Director of Centropa. 4. The German Committee for the Support of the Museum. 3. 4. 22 DONORS DAY 1. 2. 1. Krystyna Zachwatowicz and Prof. Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Member of the Museum Council. 2. From right: Marta Prochwicz, Swedish Committee for the Support of the Museum, Rainer Mahlamäki; Maria Gruber-Bień, Jackie Jakubowski, Swedish Committee. 23 DONORS DAY 1. 1. Distinguished Benefactors, Nissenbaum Family. 2. Distinguished Benefactor Ygal Ozechov and David DeBenedetti, DeBenedetti Majewski Szcześniak. 3. From left: Peter Jassem, Eli Rubenstein, Museum 3. 2. donors Joseph and Lori Gottdenker 24 DISTINGUISHED BENEFACTORS MET WITH THE PRESIDENT OF POLAND 25 PRESIDENT OF POLAND BRONISŁAW KOMOROWSKI “This project is an initiative and investment, political and emotional, in the future of Polish-Jewish and Polish-Israeli relations.” 26 INAUGURAL CONCERT “POLIN Museum is far more than the home of a great exhibition or center of education and scientific discourse. It is a sign of the dominance of good over evil, a sign of eternal
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