Report – 2019 Museum 2

Ladies and gentlemen,

The two years of existence of the 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 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 . 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 . 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 and The team adopted three key elements to the extermination of 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 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 . 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 , 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 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. These works have Procyk and they will be completed been carried out at the Faculty in June 2020.

A marble foundation plaque from the Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital before conservation, Photo: WGM

The WGM employees during the unpacking of Henryk Hechtkopf’s works, Warsaw, Faculty of 2019, Conservation Photo: WGM and Restoration of Works of Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw Photo: WGM

Directors of the WGM As part of the Collections Department, Institute, Archive of the Masovian presenting Henryk a database of photographs of the Warsaw Voivodship Monument Conservator, Hechtkopf’s Ghetto was created, which contains scans National Digital Archive and Bildarchiv work, Warsaw, 2019, of over 9600 photographs. Some of them Österreichische Nationalbibliothek ONB, Photo: WGM have already been given a topographic Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Bundesarchiv description. In order to create a database, Deutschland in Koblenz. queries were conducted in the collections Moreover, for the purposes of of: the Museum, the Permanent Exhibition, queries were State Archive in Warsaw, Archive conducted in museum and cultural of New Files, National Museum in Warsaw, centres located in the Masovian Institute of Art of the Polish Academy Voivodship with a view to the Permanent of Sciences, Monuments Documentation Exhibition. Department of the Jewish Historical 13 14 The Education Department has joined in a ghetto?” for students of primary Education the celebrations organised in cooperation schools in Łódź; on 18 April, we met with with the Jewish Social and Cultural the youth from H. Sienkiewicz Secondary Association to commemorate the Days School in Warsaw, and on 19 April, we Museum lessons of Remembrance of conducted classes for members of and the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto the children’s choir of the city of Łódź. In 2019, the employees of the Education in Mińsk Mazowiecki, Maków Mazowiecki, Uprising. On 28 January 2019, A total of approximately 120 participants Department conducted 98 hours Przasnysz, all over Warsaw. The classes we conducted a workshop entitled took part in the workshops. of museum lessons, attended by 1470 were conducted in various forms: lessons, „What does it mean to be closed students from Warsaw and . Free workshops and walks. Classes on Jewish of charge classes were held tradition and culture and the history in primary and secondary schools of the Warsaw Ghetto attracted Dr. Wiesława the greatest interest. Młynarczyk with the youth from H. Classes in Sienkiewicz primary school Secondary no. 2 in Marki, School, 1 November 8 April 2019. 2019, conducted by Dr. Wiesław Młynarczyk

“Judaism without secrets” classes, Primary School No. 107 in Warsaw, October 2019, conducted by Dr. Halina Postek. 15 16 The „Warsaw Ghetto - Treblinka The training devoted to the tragic fate Training courses - Majdanek” training, which took place of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto, most on 25-27 October, was possible thanks of whom were murdered in Treblinka In 2019, the education department Berent, doctors Piotr Trojański, August to establishing cooperation with and Majdanek, was attended by 21 organised and conducted two training Grabski, Sebastian Piątkowski, Martyna museums in Treblinka and Majdanek. teachers from all over Poland. courses for teachers, educators and Grądzka-Ryak, Maria Ciesielska and other guides. The first one, entitled „Around experts on the topics of the Holocaust. the Warsaw Ghetto and other ghettos A special experience was the meeting in occupied Poland”, took place on with a witness to the history Classes for 29-31 March 2019. The speakers included - Wacław Kornblum, a Warsaw ghetto teachers organised by professors Sławomir Buryła and Grzegorz survivor. the WGM in the museum in Treblinka, 29 October 2019. Wacław Photo WGM/ Kornblum M. Nowak at the meeting with the articipants of the training for teachers, 30 March 2019

Treblinka study tour, 29 October 2019. Photo WGM/ M. Nowak

Presentation by Dr. Sebastian Piątkowski Dr. Piotr Trojański talking about Holocaust about the Ghetto, 30 March 2019. education in Poland, 30 March 2019. Photo WGM Photo WGM 17 18 Education boards Varsavianist

In cooperation with the employees (in three languages: Polish, Hebrew of the education department and English) in the courtyard walks of the Israeli Ministry of Education, of the former Bersohn and Bauman a project addressed to Polish and Israeli Children’s Hospital. Due to the special In the spring of 2019, the Education along with the history of the Bersohn and students was carried out. situation of the hospital building, which Department began a series of regular Bauman Children’s Hospital, and places The project resulted in the development awaits renovation, the boards can be varsavianist walks addressed to a wide related to the activity of Janusz Korczak and installation of 12 educational boards viewed two days a week by appointment. audience, focusing on the history and were shown. The trail also included telling the history of the Warsaw Ghetto functioning of the Warsaw Ghetto. the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa The walks followed in the footsteps Street, where the graves of distinguished The education of the fights undertaken by the fighters philanthropists are located - the places boards were of the Jewish Combat Organisation and presented at the „Warsaw in Three placed in front of the hospital the , the history Portraits” exhibition. Approximately wall from the of Sienna and Śliska Streets was told 150 people took part in 6 walks. side of Sienna Street. Photo WGM/ M .Nowak The youth from A. Fredry Secondary School and Jagna Kofta conducting a tour of the former ghetto, September 2019 Photo WGM

Education board dedicated to Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oneg Shabbat group. Photo WGM

Employee of the Education Department, The “Cemetery at Okopowa Street. Jewish Jagna Kofta, during a walk “Warsaw belongs philatropists” walk. Conducted by Jagna to me and I belong to Warsaw.” Photo WGM Kofta. Photo WGM 19 20 Internet guide/ Educational game Radio play Series of film interviews „In the footsteps of the Warsaw Ghetto” The audio guide materials, which were In cooperation with the World Union the situation in which Jews found prepared last year, have been used for of Soldiers, the Education themselves during the war: from active In cooperation with the Polish educational purposes. On their basis, Department carried out the „Home help, through helpless compassion, Underground State Foundation, a radio play was created, which describes Army against the tragedy of Polish Jews” indifference to the events taking place, an Internet Educational Guide/Game the situation of 1/3 of the inhabitants of project as part of the Multi-annual to taking advantage of the situation was created, thanks to which anyone pre-war Warsaw, during World War II. In „Independent” Programme for the years in which fellow Jewish citizens found who enters the website created for this November 1940, approx. four hundred 2017-2022. It is a series of 30 interviews themselves. Parts of the interviews are purpose will be able to learn thousand Jews were closed behind with the witnesses to the history, presented on the WGM website in three the history of selected places connected the walls marking the borders of recorded on film. The interviews show languages: Polish, English and Hebrew. with the Warsaw Ghetto. These include the ghetto. In July 1942, the so-called the spectrum of attitudes towards the following monuments: Monument to Grossaktion took place in the Treblinka II the Ghetto Heroes, Monument extermination camp, which entailed One of the to the Evacuation of Warsaw Ghetto the murder of the majority, i.e. almost 300 interviewees, Fighters, Monument of Janusz Korczak, thousand, of the Jews gathered in a participant of the Warsaw Emanuel Ringelblum, Szmul Zygelbojm, the Warsaw Ghetto. In the morning of Uprising, Halina Monument; monuments 19 April 1943, when the Germans began Rogozińska, June 2019. commemorating: commanders the final liquidation of the ghetto and Photo WGM/ of the Jewish Fighting Organisation, another wave of deportations, they were M. Nowak fights of the Jewish Military Union on fired upon by fighters from the Jewish Muranowski Square, „Żegota” Council Combat Organisation (ŻOB) and to Aid Jews. The guide is intended for the Jewish Military Union (ŻZW). working with students as well The script was written by Ewa Bieniek- as for tourists. The game is available at: Małkowska, the radio play was directed by https://1943.pl/gra-edukacyjna/. Paweł Passini. The radio play is available on the website www.1943.pl, in the „videoblog” tab.Paweł Passini. The radio play is available on the website www.1943.pl , in the „videoblog” tab. Interview with Michał Bauer, participant of the September Research activities campaign, Home Army soldier, May Scientific conference (ENRS) and Touro College . The main 2019. Photo aim of the conference was to make an in- WGM/ M. Nowak In November 2019, the museum organised depth, scientific analysis of the influence an international scientific conference of the German occupation on the situation entitled „The Beginning of Nazi Occupation: in Polish lands and the attitudes of Patterns of Continuity and Changes the population in the first year of in Jewish and Polish Life, 1939-1941” in the German occupation. This event cooperation with the Polish Association corresponded nicely with the 80th for Jewish Studies (PTSŻ), the Jewish anniversary of the outbreak of the Second Historical Institute (ŻIH), the European World War in 2019. Approximately 200 Network Remembrance and Solidarity people took part in the debate. 21 22 Scientific conference, november 2019, ŻIH. Photo MGW/ M. Nowak

Photo MGW/ J. Turczyk Photo MGW/ J. Turczyk Albert Stankowski – director speaking Album dedicated to the Bersohn to the and Bauman Children’s Hospital assembled. Photo MGW/ J. Turczyk The publication was prepared by testimony to the history of Warsaw Jews Dr. Hanna Węgrzynek - deputy director and the Warsaw Ghetto. Museum staff of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum wrote texts showing the history of and prof. Konrad Zieliński from the hospital and collected iconographic the Scientific Department presents materials. The album was released in two the history of the Bersohn and Bauman language versions – Polish and English, Children’s Hospital as an important in edition of 300 copies each.

Prof. Daniel Blatman – Chief Historian WGM, moderates the lecture. Photo MGW/ J. Turczyk

Anniversary publication of the WGM - album dedicated to the Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital Photo: WGM 23 24 Memories of Izaak Wacław Kornblum the war broke out, the whole family Interactive map of the ghetto moved to 35 Niska Street. Izaak Kornblum Publication entitled: „Wacław Kornblum. was thirteen at the time. His memories In 2018, works on an interactive map and after its liquidation. The ongoing Memories. My version” opens a series constitute an emotional story about of the ghetto were initiated. The project works focus on topographic changes of personal retrospections. The main the diversity of life of Jews in the pre-war was partially implemented under and contain many new findings which character (born in 1926) grew up in Warsaw, about Polish-Jewish relations the Multi-annual „Independent” differ from previous studies of this type. Warsaw of the 1930s. At that time, he lived during the occupation, about hiding Programme for the years 2017-2022. In the future, the map will be enriched at 42 Śliska Street, near the Bersohn and and survival, and finally about the post- The aim is to prepare a map showing with numerous photos, which are Bauman Children’s Hospital. He attended war history of the Survivors. Today, the changes taking place in the city space successively collected. The interactive a nursery school operating under Wacław Kornblum is a member during World War II before the creation map of the ghetto will be an important the auspices of the Bund, then a Bund of the Council of the Warswaw of the ghetto, during its existence part of the permanent exhibition. school at ul. Krochmalna 36. Just before Ghetto Museum.

Wacław Kornblum, Warsaw 2019, Photo: MGW Initiatives J. Turczyk

„This used to be a ghetto. We remember.”

A programme has been developed to include local governments and communities in Mazovia in the commemoration of the Jewish population. The authorities of towns, municipalities and villages were offered WGM to jointly organise anniversary events Matzevas Publication and contribute to commemoration of Memory, Wacław Jerzy Kalina Kornblum. in the form of plaques. There were Memories. 12 letters of intent sent out. Talks My version photo: WGM and documentation collection are in progress. The project will last several years. In order to commemorate ghettos, the museum will offer the participating municipalities to erect a monument or to build a commemorative plaque. The author of the ‚Matzevas of Memory’ project is sculptor Jerzy Kalina, who signed a cooperation agreement with the Warsaw Ghetto Museum in this regard. 25 26 An example of Protection of monuments clearly visible in several photographs placing preserved. a commemo- rative plaque, On the initiative of specialists from The bullet marks are still visible in some author the Department of Collections of parts of the fence. J. Kalina. the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, the fence The preservation maintenance of the building at 5/7 Stawki Street from of the fence was possible thanks the side of Niska Street has been included to the iconographic and cartographic in the communal register of historic analysis of the plans and photoplans from monuments of the Capital City the years 1936-1948, and photographs of Warsaw. The fence surrounds (i.a. from the ), which the current seat of the Faculty of showed that part of the fence from Psychology of the , the side of Niska Street as well where Public Universal Schools No. 153 as the foundation and posts are original and 175 were located before the war. and were built simultaneously with During World War II, this area was located the building in the years 1936-1937. within the ghetto boundaries, which is

An example of placing a monument, author: J. Kalina.

Fragment of the fence from the side of Fence post with a visible shooting hole, Niska Street. Photo WGM probably from 1943 or 1944. May 2019, photo - WGM

People getting out of the building, 25 People preparing to jump from a Niska Street. Source: Stroop Report burning building, 25, 27 Niska Street. 4. Source: Stroop Report 27 28 Geophysical surveys on the Miła Street and, International memento collection in September 2019. Moreover, at the request of the Royal Łazienki in cooperation with American film In July 2019, on the premises of the future Museum, on the premises of this In 2020, it is planned to launch producer Charles B. Wessler, a film seat of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, institution. In cooperation with the „International Memento Collection” inviting the English-speaking audience geophysical research was carried out the Institute of Archaeology and campaign, the aim of which is to acquire to participate in the action was created. by experts from the Maurice Greenberg Ethnology of the Polish Academy objects connected with Further promotional and organisational Centre for Judaic Studies at Hartford of Sciences, non-invasive archaeological the Warsaw Ghetto. The regulations activities will be continued in 2020 and University in Connecticut in the United research was carried out within the area of this undertaking were introduced in the following years. States. Researchers were looking for of the hospital complex. As a result, artefacts related to the history of several anomalies, that may be related the hospital. Analogous research was also to the presence of historical objects, carried out around the Anielewicz Mound were detected Director Albert Stankowski and film producer Charless B. Wessler, Warsaw 2019 photo WGM

Events

Anniversary of outbreak of the Warsaw part of the ceremonies: workshops for Ghetto Uprisin school youth; a varsavianist walk along the memorial sites of the Ghetto Uprising; In April 2019, the Warsaw Ghetto Museum a film show - „Ulica graniczna” („Border team, invited to partner with Street”) (dir. A.Ford, release year 1948) the Jewish Social and Cultural Association with a commentary of a film expert; in Poland, organised a series of events a concert commemorating Jewish commemorating the anniversary composers - victims of the Holocaust of the . „Silent Voices”; a monodrama „Yosl The main ceremonies with Rakower Talks to God” performed the participation of state and local by Sławomir Holland. The exhibition selfgovernment authorities, veterans and „Wyprostowani, nieugięci...” („Upright, Jewish circles took place in front of unyielding...”) dedicated to the author Photo MGW/ M. Nowak the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes. of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes The following events were organised as was opened. 29 30 Concert closing the year project was inspired by the Abram Koplowicz’s poem entitled „Marzenie” In December 2019, the Warsaw Ghetto („Dream”), written by a thirteen-year-old Museum in cooperation with Warsaw in the Łódź Ghetto. Translated into over Jewish organisations prepared cultural ten languages, it has become a symbol events on the occasion of Hanukkah. of children’s work during the Holocaust. Promoting Polish artists, who seek Abram Koplowicz died in Auschwitz inspiration in the works of Jewish artists, but his legacy survived, thanks to his a concert of Lena Piękniewska entitled: stepbrother. The program also included „Coś przyjdzie - miłość lub śmierć” literary works by Zuzanna Ginczanka, („Something is to come - love or death”) Abraham Cytryn and Janka Hescheles. was organised and recorded. This musical

“Coś przyjdzie: miłość lub wojna” (“Something is to come: love or war”) Concert on the occasion of Hanukkah 2019. photo WGM/ J. Turczyk

76th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 19.04.2019. Photo MGW/ J. Turczyk

Director Hanna Węgrzynek showing the visitors around the area of the ghetto, Photo. WGM/ J. Turczyk

Alexander Ben Zvi Ambassador of Israel David Berman scientific worker at to Poland Photo WGM/J. Turczyk the Warsaw Ghetto Museum Photo WGM/J. Turczyk 31 32 Albert Stankowski Director of Image the Warsaw Ghetto Museum photo WGM/ WGM visual identity competition the ghetto,” J. Turczyk says Prof Philipe Boulakia. „The economical and well-thought-out „The visual identity of this institution graphic form is fully adequate to the should take its pro-social nature importance of the topic Prof Slawomir into account. Moreover, it must be Kosmynka „The strength of this concept understandable to people of many lies in the fact that it does not illustrate cultures and languages. The Lithuanian the horror with numbers or ‚fancy design met the criteria adopted symbols’, but with the real names by the jury to the greatest extent,” of people who experienced the life in says Margaret Naimska.

Lena Piękniewska photo MGW/ J. Turczyk

The concept of the visual identity of studios from Poland among the museum was selected by international the finalists: Futu, Redkroft, The Codeine. competition which was conducted jointly Moreover, the designers from the Czech- with the Polish Association of Applied British studio Little Greta, the Lithuanian Graphic Designers. studio DADADA and the Italian designer The authors of the winning concept are Francesco Ciampa were qualified designers from the Lithuanian studio for the second stage. The finalists DADADA. The competition was announced prepared works in the form of specific in September 2019. In the first stage, 216 visual identity concepts to be evaluated applications were received, out of which by the competition jury. the jury selected 6. There were three 11 designs were submitted. 33 34 TosiaTosia AltmanTosia Altman Altman NationalNationalNational Website and social media profile of Warsaw that existed during AugustAugu 24, 191st 92 4,–Augu 1919st – 24, 1919 – the occupation - the author shows May 26, 1943 RemembranceRemembranceRemembrance MaTosiay 26,MaT 1943yosia 26, Altman1943 Altman NationalNational DaDay foryDa f orPolesy Pforoles Poles The www.1943.pl website, prepared in Polish the reader specific streets and talks about August 2Augu4, 191st9 2–4, 1919 – RemembranceRemembrance May 26,Ma 1943y 26, 1943 Saving Jews SaDavingSayDa fvingory J fPorewoles J Pewsoles s and English versions, is a source institutions and people connected with SaMarchvingSa Mar24 chving 24 JMarewch 24Jsews of information about the institution them. The Warsaw Ghetto Museum has and its employees. In addition published 23 episodes of the series so far. TATA TA March 24March 24 Warsaw GhetWarsawto GhetWato rsaw Ghetto to the Public Information Bulletin, Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych MuseumMuseum Museum of Tosia Altman TAof Tosia TAAltmanof Tosia Altman information about current events is a anthropologist of culture, Hebraist Warsaw GhetWarsawto Ghetto Museum Museum of Tosia Altmanof Tosia Altman and historical columns are published here. and sociologist. She is a highly regarded In memoryIn memoryIn memory AdamAdamAdam „The Taste of Life in the Ghetto” researcher of the life and legacy Czerniaków of allof allvictimsof victims all victims ACzerniadamCzerniaAdamkówków by Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych is of Janusz Korczak, a collaborator In memoryIn memory NovemberNove 30mber, 1880No 30ve —, 1880mber — 30 , 1880 — of Warsaw The monthThe month ofThe uprisin monthof uprising of guprisinJuly g23,July 1942 23, 1942July 23, 1942 of allWofofarsa Wvictimsallarsa victimsw w CzerniaCzerniakówków a cycle of 25 columns that create of the Forum for Dialogue Foundation GhettGhettoGhetto o NovemberNo ve30mber, 1880 30 —, 1880 — of Wofarsa Warsaw w The monthThe month of uprisin of uprising g July 23, July1942 23, 1942 a series concerning the food problems and the Center for Culture. GhettGhetto o that affected Jews confined in the Warsaw In December 2019 she received the KLIO Ghetto, as well as concerning the activities Award, in a contest for the best historical Warsaw GhetWarsawto GhetWtoarsaw Ghetto Warsaw GhettWarsawo GhettWao rsaw Ghetto Museum Museumof of Museum of Museum Museum Museum UnknownUnkno Victimwn VictiUnknom wn Victim of Adam ofCzernia Adamkó Czerniaw of Akódamw Czerniaków of provisional feeding points books, for her book „Mniej strachu. Fakty

Warsaw GhetWarsawto Ghetto Warsaw GhettWarsawo Ghetto Museum ofMuseum of Museum Museum for the starving ghetto inhabitants, i mity o ostatniej drodze Janusza Korczaka Unknown VictiUnknomwn Victim of Adam Czerniaof Adamkó wCzerniaków and kitchens providing food for children i jego podopiecznych” [„Less fear. Facts and infants. The series takes the form and myths of the last road of Janusz of a stroll around the closed district Korczak and the children of his orphanage”]. The winning work was selected by possibilities of creating logos based on the international jury composed of: specific, historical names. Visual identity Małgorzata Naimska - Deputy Director is much more than a logo, it is the context of the Culture Dpt. of the City of Warsaw; and language of forms, colours and Barbara Schabowska - Director of typefaces, which form a well-thought-out the Adam Mickiewicz Institute; Philippe key visual characteristic of the brand - in Boulakia, lecturer at the Bezalel Academy this case of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. of Arts and Design in ; Identity colours are assigned with Prof Sławomir Kosmynka from associations and meanings: red (terror), the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts stone brown (history), light blue (hope). in Łódź and Albert Stankowski - Director The DADADA studio designed a unique of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. typeface inspired by Hebrew lettering, The concept of the Lithuanian DADADA called „Memotype”. Studio translates the mission Its characters are used only in of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum from the logotype signet. The logotype signet the official language into the language always consists of initials, in its basic of emotions, referring to individual (institutional) form it is an abbreviation memory. of the name of the Warsaw Ghetto The authors are supported by the idea Museum, and in versions commemorating of commemorating specific people, as victims and ghetto survivors - the initial expressed in the slogan „No one can letters of their first names and surnames. be forgotten”. In addition to the regular An integral part of the logotype is logotype, based on the name the full name of the Museum, and in of the institution, an algorithm has been variants commemorating people, also designed that enables almost limitless their full names. 35 36 Unlike the columns by Agnieszka the liberation of Auschwitz in Witkowska-Krych, these by Paweł the context of the International Holocaust Cooperation Wieczorek (PhD) were written on Remembrance Day, Irena Sendler, the basis of the anniversary calendar the participation of Jews in the Warsaw Scientific and educational cooperation lessons (, being part of the mission to spread Uprising and Polish aid to Jews during ), organisation knowledge about the life, struggle the war in relation to the National Day Cooperation agreements have been of workshops for teachers („Przystanek and extermination of Polish Jews in of Remembrance of Poles Rescuing Jews signed with the following institutions: Historia”). the Warsaw Ghetto and other ghettos in under German occupation. Institute of National Remembrance, The Education Department has also Germanoccupied Poland. So far, The author specialises in recent history Treblinka Museum, a Nazi begun cooperation with the Konwój 77 Dr. Wieczorek has written ten columns and was granted M. Bałaban Award for extermination and labour camp („Convoy 77”) organisation, which runs for the museum. His texts concerned: the best doctoral thesis by (1941–1944), , a project to commemorate the Jews the beginning and the fall of the Warsaw the Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH). a concentration and deported by the final train from France Ghetto Uprising, „Operation Reinhardt”, She has cooperated with USHMM, ŻIH extermination camp (1941–1944), to Auschwitz. the „Krysia” bunker, „Bloody Friday”, and TSKŻ. Warsaw Uprising Museum, Jewish Social As part of joint activities, museum and Cultural Association in Poland, educators would train Nissenbaum Family Foundation, Polish the teachers participating in the project. Underground State Foundation, Institute Similar cooperation, concerning of Archaeology and Ethnology the training of teachers, was established of the Polish Academy of Sciences. with the Foundation for the Preservation The Education Department has of Jewish Heritage which has been established contacts with education protecting Jewish cemeteries in Poland department of the Warsaw Uprising for many years. Museum, the „Przystanek Historia” („Next The Scientific and Research Department Stop: History”) Educational Centre has established cooperation with of the Institute of National Remembrance museums and scientific and research and the education department of institutions in Poland and abroad that the Museum of Polish History. Areas conduct research on the history of cooperation with these institutions and culture of Jews and especially have been established: joint museum on the Holocaust.

Signing the cooperation agreement between In July 2019, the WGM started an online contemporary photographs are taken the WGM and the Treblinka project concerning the wartime past by a volunteer cooperating with Museum.from of the capital and its contemporary the museum - Mr. Janusz Wąż. Each post the left, Prof Konrad Zieliński, image. Photographs of Warsaw from of the project attracts a group of several WGM historian; the time of the German occupation thousand recipients. This contributes Dr. Edward contrasted with photographs to the involvement of the inhabitants Kopówka, Director of of the same places in their current state, of Warsaw in learning about the history the Treblinka are presented every Friday on the social of the capital city, as well as helps Museum; Albert Stankowski, media profile of the institution. Archival to better promote the Warsaw Ghetto Director of photographs are provided Museum which, as a young institution, the WGM, Prof Daniel Blatman, by the Department of Collections is still creating its image. chief historian of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, while of the WGM 37 38 Signing the Cooperation at the international level the prestigious and recognised journal cooperation „The Journal for the Study agreement with the Institute The Museum’s education department of the Holocaust and ”, of National has begun cooperation with the Israeli published by Mordechai Anielevich Remembrance, Jarosław Ministry of Education, the aim of which is Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Szarek, to get involved with the organisation of in Israel. The Museum cooperates closely President of the Institute a substantive programme of visits to with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem of National Poland for Israeli youth. The Museum also (thanks to the involvement Remembrance; cooperates with Israeli NGOs, including of the museum’s chief historian, Albert Stankowski, the Mashmaut Center, commemorating prof. Daniel Blatman). A promising Director of Jews murdered in Poland during cooperation was also established with the Warsaw Ghetto the Holocaust. The result of this Touro College Berlin (resulting in a joint Museum cooperation was an educational walk conference in November 2019). April 2019 photo WGM and a lecture devoted to Stefania The exhibition department began Wilczyńska, prepared for an Israeli group cooperation with the Holocaust Museum of female educators who visited Warsaw in Sered, Slovakia, which will result in August 2019. in the presentation of an exhibition The Scientific Department plans to get concerning the Warsaw Ghetto in Sered involved with the publication of in November 2020.

Council of the Warsaw

Signing the cooperation agreement between the Signing the cooperation agreement between the WGM and the Jewish Social and Cultural Association WGM and the Majdanek State Museum from the left: in Poland; from the left: Director of the WGM - Albert Dr. Tomasz Krantz, Director of the Museum, Albert Ghetto Museum Stankowski, President of TSKŻ - Artur Hofman Stankowski, Director of the WGM

On the basis of the Act of 21 November of the Council of the Warsaw Ghetto 1996 on Museums, on 10 September 2019, Museum, combined with a press 14 members of the Museum Council conference, was held. In the closed part at the Warsaw Ghetto Museum were of the meeting, the following members nominated. The following people were were elected: Chairman of the Council - nominated: Colette Avital; bishop Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland, Dr. Mieczysław Cisło; Michael Schudrich; and the Vice-Chairman - Małgorzata Adam Struzik; Małgorzata Naimska; Naimska, Deputy Director of the Culture Artur Hoffman; Dr. Jan Kutnik; Department of the City of Warsaw. Irene Kronhill Pletka; Anna Stupnicka- Bando; Gideon Nissenbaum; Barbara The people gathered also nominated Signing the cooperation agreement between the Signing the contract with the Nissenbaum Family Blumenthal; Abraham Foxman; the fifteenth member of the council; WGM and the Nissenbaum Family Foundation from Foundation June 2019 Marian Turski; Wacław Kornblum. it was Minister of Culture and National the left: Gideon Nissenbaum, Albert Stankowski photo WGM In September, the first meeting Heritage Jarosław Sellin. 39 40 Members of the WGM Council

Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital Photo WGM

Statistics of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum

| Number of people visiting temporary exhibitions: “The Erect, The Relentless...” Approximately 45,000 people saw the exhibition. Approximately 30,000 people saw the “Postcards from our area” exhibition. We estimate that the “Warsaw in Three Portraits” exhibition was seen by approx. 80,000 people.

| Number of lessons conducted: In 2019, the employees of the Education Department conducted 98 hours of museum lessons, attended by 1470 students from Warsaw and Mazovia.

| Number of interviews completed – As part of the “Home Army against the tragedy of Polish Jews” project - the education department conducted a series of 30 interviews recorded on film with witnesses to the history.

| Collection – There are 79 items in the inventory of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, consisting of 709 objects (including 433 photographs).

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| Warsaw Ghetto Museum Editorship: communication and promotion department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum: Anna Kilian, Kama Pawlicka, Miłka Skalska, Tomasz Kaliński Graphic design and composition: Andrzej Wąsik, andu.pl Proofreading: First meeting of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum Council, 11.09.2019. Photo MGW/ J. Turczyk Janusz Sigismund Warsaw Ghetto Musuem [email protected] ul. Zielna 39 00-108 Warsaw www.1943.pl