On Monday, May 29, MGW hosted Ricardo Ruiz de la Serna, a law professor at CEU San Pablo University in Madrid and a member of the Spanish delegation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The professor visited the MGW exhibition "The Ghetto on Fire" at Grzybowski Square, which was based on a comic book by Tomasz Bereźnicki.
Professor Ruiz de la Serna specializes in criminal and international law, focusing on topics including anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, hate speech, and discrimination. He wrote about the GMW exhibition "City of the Living/City of the Dead" in the Spanish website El Debate : " In moving photographs, the faces of ghetto residents appear on the streets of today's Warsaw. That city no longer exists, but its inhabitants come back to life in places where visitors walk today (...) Thanks to Robert Wilczyński, these two cities—the present and the one that no longer exists—are connected in these streets and these faces."
In his article, Professor Ruiz de la Serna also mentioned the Jewish Military Union – an organization that was largely overlooked in historiography, but which played a significant role in Jewish armed resistance during World War II. The history and struggle of the Jewish Military Union during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are also explored in the film "Two Flags ," co-produced by the Warsaw Ghetto Museum. This story is based on archival recordings of ŻZW fighters, previously unknown documents, and unique photographs obtained from Polish and foreign archives.
During his visit, the professor also visited the MGW's outdoor exhibition "The Ghetto is Burning," which can be seen at Grzybowski Square in Warsaw until the end of this year. The exhibition is based on a comic book by Tomasz Bereźnicki—one of the few titles on the Polish publishing market that depicts the tragedy of the Warsaw Ghetto insurgents in comic book form. We learn about the tragic events by following the fate of three young Jewish women, schoolmates from the neighborhood, who, in the face of German Nazi terror, take up arms to fight the occupiers.
