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Report – 2019 Warsaw Ghetto Museum 2 Report – 2019 Warsaw Ghetto Museum 2 Ladies and gentlemen, The two years of existence of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum was a time of hard work. The institution, which was built from scratch, has already marked its presence on the map of Polish culture and memory. We organise outdoor exhibitions; artistic events, scientific conferences and community meetings. We commemorate anniversaries. The museum has a rich educational offer for students, teachers and guides engaged in historical tourism. You are welcome to take a walk along the trail of Warsaw Ghetto memorial sites. The museum cooperates with institutions in Poland and abroad. We support veterans’ organisations. Our main activity is the development of the museum, which involves working on a permanent exhibition and preserving the monument – the Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital – which will house the Warsaw Ghetto Museum in the future. The year 2019, the first full calendar year of our work, brought challenges to us. We are sharing what we have experienced and asking for your Albert Stankowski support for our actions. Director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum Photo R. Szymański Albert Stankowski 4 Exhibitions Permanent exhibition In July 2019, the Permanent Exhibition on Jewish life in Poland during the German Team was established, composed of occupation, going beyond the framework historians from Poland, the USA and Israel. of Jewish history in the Warsaw Ghetto. Under the direction of the chief historian To this end, part of the exhibition will be of the permanent exhibition, Prof. Daniel devoted to the history of other ghettos. Blatman, and the Director of the Warsaw b) The history of the Warsaw Ghetto told Ghetto Museum, Albert Stankowski, against the background of the history the team prepared documents containing of occupied Warsaw. The exhibition will the first concept of the whole exhibition focus on vulnerability of the city and individual galleries, as well to German regulations, which led to as presentations discussing particular the division of both its territory and issues. A time frame has been established; the society. It will show a close connection the narrative will focus on the events of between the ghetto life and the life the 20th century, taking into account of the whole city. the date of construction of the hospital c) The permanent exhibition will strive to (1878) and the charitable activities of convey a universal message, according to the Bersohn and Bauman families. which the tragedy of the Holocaust and The team adopted three key elements to the extermination of Jews in Warsaw is be conveyed to visitors, especially to the starting point for showing humanistic the younger generation: values ​​such as tolerance, compassion for a) The ability to thoroughly experience and minorities, dialogue between religious, understand the diversity of Jewish life in ethnic and national groups. The destructive Warsaw and the important role of Jews consequences of anti-Semitism in the development and expansion and racism should not only of the city; be remembered forever, but also serve b) The complexity and diversity as a warning for future generations. of relations between Poles and Jews The preliminary draft scenario of the before World War II and during the German permanent exhibition has been submitted occupation, including violence and hostility to an independent team of Polish arising alongside help and compassion; and international historians for review. c) Building empathy and understanding Opinions about it have also been of the unique fate of Polish and Warsaw expressed by the members of the Warsaw Jews during the period of extermination Ghetto Museum Council. planned and carried out by the Germans. The Permanent Exhibition Team together The team also adopted three key with the Investment Department of parameters which will constitute dominant the Warsaw Ghetto Museum is preparing trends in the historical narrative documents for the tender for the concept of the Museum: of the permanent exhibition, which is to be a) The presentation of a broad perspective announced in 2020. 5 6 Wyprostowani, nieugięci... (Upright, of 1940s and 1950s, and to introduce unyielding...) Natan Rapoport and the to the figure of its creator Nathan Monument to the Ghetto Heroes Rapoport - an internationally renowned sculptor, the author of monuments – square at the Monument to the Ghetto commemorating the Holocaust around Heroes in Warsaw (18 April - 30 October the world (e.g. in the USA, Europe, Israel) 2019) who in his youth was connected with The exhibition was devoted to the life Warsaw and its artistic community. and work of the author of the design The exhibition was based on photographic of the monument - Natan Rapoport materials presenting the artist (Warsaw, 1911 - New York, 1987) and and his works, designs of the Monument the monument itself. Its purpose was to the Ghetto Heroes, its unveiling to show the history of construction ceremony, interviews and press reviews. of the monument in the socio-political Approximately 45,000 people saw and cultural context the exhibition. Standing up straight, unbent … . Photo. MGW/ Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital M. Nowak Photo WGM/M. Nowak Temporary exhibitions A witness to history. Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital Standing - the fence of the Bersohn and Bauman an art historian and critic, included up straight, unbent … . Hospital at ul. Sienna 60 in Warsaw 20 boards. The concept was prepared Photo. MGW/ (23 July 2018 - 31 January 2019) by Dr. Hanna Węgrzynek, deputy director M. Nowak for research and exhibition. The exhibition, The first exhibition prepared opened on 23 July 2018, has been by the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. included in the commemoration of The outdoor photographic exhibition the 76th anniversary of the mass on the fence of the former hospital deportation of Warsaw Jews to building, which will become the seat the Treblinka extermination camp. of the Museum in the future, reminded The exhibition attracted a lot of interest of the history of this historic building. and was often shown by Warsaw guides The exhibition, curated by Dr. Ewa Toniak, during tours of the former ghetto. 7 8 Standing up straight, unbent … . Photo MGW/ M. Nowak Postcards from our neigbourhood. Photo MGW/ J. Turczyk Photo MGW/ M. Nowak Standing up straight, unbent … . Photo MGW/ M. Nowak Postcards from our area... History of Sienna and Śliska Streets Photo MGW/ M. Nowak – the fence of the Bersohn and Bauman the Second Polish Republic, the Second Hospital building at Sienna 60 in Warsaw World War, when both streets were part (from 15 May 2019) of the so-called small ghetto, and post- war times. The exhibition upholds the The aim of the exhibition is to show memory of Warsaw’s multiculturalism and the history of both streets, from the Jewish community that once lived the early nineteenth century to 1960s by here, and at the same time disseminates means of photographs showing information about the Museum and its the no longer existing buildings and street target seat. It is based on photographic scenes as well as posters informing materials from many national and foreign about political, cultural and educational archives. We estimate that by the end events. Iconographies and documents of 2019 the exhibition was seen by from the period of the Russian partition, approximately 30,000 people. 9 10 Warsaw in Three Portraits (8 September 2019-31 January 2020) Collection – Grzybowski Square The exhibition has been organised accompanying its turbulent history. The Museum’s collection includes corpses in the Warsaw Ghetto purchased in connection with commemoration These changes are shown on the example interesting items acquired as gifts and together with the Nissenbaum Family of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of 12 streets that were located in through purchase. These include Judaica, Foundation, wagons for removing debris of World War II. It presented three the ghetto or its vicinity during the war. documents from the occupation period, from the former ghetto area, items related portraits of Warsaw: pre-war, wartime We estimate that the exhibition was seen photographs, postcards, everyday use to hospital equipment, such as medical and reconstruction times, which show by approx. 80,000 people. objects, as well as a cart for transporting equipment, furniture from the era. the changing image of the city, The cart for transporting Warsaw in corpses Three Portraits, in the Warsaw Grzybowski Ghetto, Square purchased with in Warsaw, the support Photo WGM/ of the M. Nowak Nissenbaum Family Foundation, Photo: WGM The museum’s collection has also been of the Warsaw Ghetto and portraits enriched with works of art, such as of Holocaust survivors who lived Lower the quadriptych of the contemporary Silesia, Łódź and Warsaw after artist Krzysztof Augustin. Particularly the war. The collection was donated valuable is the donated collection of 76 by Rachela and Kristyna Postavsky from drawings by Henryk Hechtkopf. It consists Israel. The works will be submitted of two series of works created in the years to a microbiological expertise and then 1945-1955, depicting the ruins subjected to maintenance. 11 12 Kristyna In 2019, works were initiated on of Conservation and Restoration of Postavski, a reconstruction and thorough Works of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Zichron Yaakov, Israel 2019, conservation of marble foundation in Warsaw as part of student coursework Photo: WGM plaques from the Bersohn and Bauman under the guidance of Prof. Wiesław Children’s Hospital.
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