"City of the Living / City of the Dead" – Robert Wilczyński's outdoor exhibition
November 16, 2021 – December 31, 2023 Robert Wilczyński's photographic project, an outdoor exhibition on the fence of the former Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital, combines archival photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto with his own photographs of contemporary Warsaw. "City of the Living / City of the Dead" is a photographic project by Robert Wilczyński. It consists of 20 panels hung on the fence of the former Bersohn and Bauman Hospital. Combining archival photographs from the ghetto (from the collection of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum), […]
Screening of the film "Opening Silence"
FINA, 3/5 Wałbrzyska Street, November 16, 2021, 6:00 PM The presented film is the culmination of a long-term project by the Education Department of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, aimed at secondary schools located in the former ghetto. The aim of this initiative was to reconstruct the site where the school currently stands, using both the memories of historical witnesses and iconography, as well as written sources – archival, scientific, journalistic, and personal literature. "Opening Silence" was created in collaboration with students […]
Broadcast of the candle-lighting ceremony at the ghetto wall
On November 16th, at 13:00 PM, the official commemorations of the 81st anniversary of the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto began. A candle-lighting ceremony took place at a section of the ghetto wall at 53 Sienna Street, attended by representatives of state and local authorities, cultural institutions, and the Jewish community, including: Deputy Speaker of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland Małgorzata Gosiewska, Minister Adam Niemczewski, Minister Jarosław Wenderlich, Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shalom Dov-Ber Stambler, […]
Opening of Robert Wilczyński's exhibition "City of the Living / City of the Dead"
The Warsaw Ghetto Museum invites you to the virtual opening of its newest outdoor exhibition – "City of the Living / City of the Dead" by Robert Wilczyński. "City of the Living / City of the Dead" is an outdoor exhibition prepared for the 81st anniversary of the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto. Location: fence of the former Bersohn and Bauman Hospital; Sienna 60, Śliska 51. Time: November 16, 2021 – July 7, 2022. "City of the Living / City of the Dead" is a photographic project by Robert Wilczyński. It consists of […]