Wed, 17.04.2024
18:00
Opening
Muzeum Warszawy
free admission

Testimonies from the Warsaw Ghetto

We are opening a new part of the main exhibition: Testimonies from the Warsaw Ghetto.

Testimonies from the Warsaw Ghetto exposition is an attempt at showing the unimaginable. It covers the period from the beginning of the German occupation and the delineation of the “area at risk of typhus” in Warsaw in spring 1940 to the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1948.

The daily life of the ghetto is presented from various perspectives—soldiers and members of the resistance movement, women and men, amateurs and professionals. Not only do their photographs tell a universal story about the war, but they also allow for contact with wartime reality from different points of view and a look at postwar Warsaw. Objects recovered during archaeological digs, belonging to people from the pre-war Northern Quarter, are material vestiges of the life of a community that had inhabited the northern part of Warsaw for nearly 200 years.

The exposition concludes with a film which also serves as the only source of light in the exhibition. The document recorded by a group of survivors right after the war shows the void left of the ghetto, turned into a rubble desert after the entire Jewish community had been annihilated, the void that has grown to become a symbol of their Holocaust.

Attention! The exhibition contains drastic content, unsuitable for sensitive people and children.

Anthology of Glances. The Warsaw Ghetto: Photographs and Films

The opening of the exhibition is accompanied by a conversation with curators Anna Duńczyk-Szulc and Aleksandra Sołtan-Lipska, as well as Dr. Agnieszka Kajczyk, about the photographs and films from the Warsaw Ghetto that were included in the exhibition and in the book Anthology of Gazes. Warsaw Ghetto – photographs and films and with Tomasz Szerszeń, it will be hosted by Ewa Kiedio.

The conversation will be held in Polish at 18:30.