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Jewish Witness to a Polish Century Żydowscy świadkowie polskiego stulecia Zdjęcia i relacje z wywiadów Centropy przeprowadzonych w Polsce w latach 2001–2008 Pictures and stories from the Centropa interviews in Poland 2001–2008

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Jewish Witness to aPolish Century

!ydowscy "wiadkowie polskiego stuleciaZdj!cia i relacje z wywiadów Centropyprzeprowadzonych w Polscew latach 2001–2008

Pictures and stories from the Centropa interviews in Poland 2001–2008

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INFORMACJE O WYSTAWIE„"ydowscy #wiadkowie polskiego stulecia“ to wystawa stworzona na podstawie wywiadów przeprowadzonych przez zespó$ Centropy z siedemdziesi!cioma "ydami w starszym wieku, wci%& mieszkaj%cymi w sze#ciu polskich miastach, a w kilku przypadkach - w s%siednich krajach.

Niegdy# najwi!ksza spo$eczno#'&ydowska na #wiecie - licz%ca oko$otrzy i pó$ miliona osób - zosta$aw ogromnej wi!kszo#ci wymordowanaprzede wszystkim przez Niemcóww czasie Holokaustu. Powojenne przejawy antysemityzmu w Polsce przyczyni$y si! do wyjazdu z kraju kolejnych setek tysi!cy "ydów. W wyniku sterowanej przez w$adze antysemickiej kampanii z 1968 roku oko$o 20 tysi!cy osób zosta$o zmuszonych do opuszczenia Polski.

Niewielu "ydów &yje wci%& w Polsce, jeszcze mniej jest w stanie przypomnie' sobie i podzieli' si! historiami sprzed Holokaustu. Wraz ze #mierci% ka&dej osoby, gin% kolejne rozdzia$y naszej historii. W tym celu rozpocz!li#my nasz projekt – aby za pomoc% nowych technologii zachowa' ich wspomnienia i dawne rodzinne fotografie. Naszym polskim zespo$em kierowa$a Anka Grupi(ska – ceniona autorka

zajmuj%ca si! tematyk% &ydowsk%.

Powszechnie wiadomo, &e w ci%gu minionego stulecia polscy "ydzi zdobywali Nagrody Nobla, z$ote medale olimpijskie i Oskary. Ta wystawa nie jest o nich. To wystawa o ludziach, którzy mieszkaj% na Twojej ulicy, w Twoim mie#cie: przyszli na #wiat w rodzinach piekarzy, robotników fabrycznych, nauczycieli i piel!gniarek, t$umaczy i lekarzy, urz!dników i ksi!gowych. Inaczej mówi%c, s% tacy sami jak ka&dy tutaj w Polsce.

Wystawa Centropy zosta$a pomy#lana jako gigantyczny album rodzinnych zdj!', który mo&esz obejrze', zwiedzaj%c j%. Jest wype$niona opowie#ciami, które Ci! rozbawi%, ale tak&e zasmuc%. To album, który odzwierciedla dumny i fascynuj%cy rozdzia$ polskiej historii,a poniewa& w Polsce wci%& istnieje ma$ lecz t!tni%ca &yciem &ydowska spo$eczno#', rozdzia$ ten jest wci%& zapisywany.

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ABOUT THIS EXHIBITION˝Jewish Witness to a Polish Century) is an exhibition created from Centropa interviews conducted with 70 elderly Jews still living in six Polish cities, as well as elderly Jews living in nearby countries.

Once the largest Jewish community in the world, with more than 3.5 million Jews, the vast majority of our country’s Jews were murdered, primarily by the Nazis, during the Holocaust. Post-war anti-Semitism saw hundreds of thousands of Jews flee the country. Another 20,000 (estimated) were forced out of Poland during a Communist-led campaign in 1968.

That has left us with very few Jews still living in Poland, and fewer still who can recall and share with us stories of pre-Holocaust Jewish life. As each one of them dies, they take with them yet another chapter of our history.

That is why we began our project – to use new technologies to preserve their memories and old family pictures. Our team in Poland was headed by Anka Grupinska, a noted writer on Jewish subjects.

It is well known that over the past century, Polish Jews won Nobel prizes, Olympic gold medals and Academy Awards.

This exhibition is not about them. This is an exhibition about the people who live on your street, in your

town: they came from families that were bakers and factory workers, teachers and nurses, translators and doctors, administrators and bookkeepers. In other words, they are just like everyone else here in Poland.

This Centropa exhibition is meant to be a like a giant photographic family album you can walk through. It is filled with stories that will make you laugh, and others are very sad indeed. It is an album that reflects a proud and fascinating chapter of Polish history, and because Poland still has a small but lively Jewish community today, it is one that is still being written.

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Wystawa powsta!a dzi"ki pomocy Departamentu Stanu USA ds. Demokracji, Praw Cz!owieka oraz Pracy, a tak#e przy dodatkowym wsparciu ze strony Fundacji Taubego na rzecz $ycia i Kultury $ydowskiej.

This exhibition was underwritten by US State Department, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, with additional support from The Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture.

AUTORZY/ CREDITS

Polski zespó! Centropy za!o#y!a w 2002 roku Anka Grupi%ska.The Polish Centropa team was founded in 2002 by Anka Grupinska.

OSOBY WYMIENIONE PONI!EJ W LATACH 2000"2008 PODJ#$Y SI# PRZEPROWADZENIA WYWIADÓW, ZREDAGOWANIA HISTORII, ZESKANOWANIA ZDJ#%, A TAK!E KONSULTACJI PROGRAMÓW EDUKACYJNYCH. BETWEEN 2000 AND 2008, THESE PEOPLE CONDUCTED OUR INTERVIEWS, EDITED OUR STORIES, SCANNED OUR PICTURES AND PROOFREAD OUR PROGRAMS.

PRZEPROWADZENIE WYWIADÓW / INTERVIEWERS

PRZEPROWADZENIE WYWIADÓW / INTERVIEWERSMagdalena Bizo%Jacek BorkowiczMarta Cobel-TokarskaMarek CzekalskiTanja EcksteinJoanna FikusKinga Ga!uszkaEdyta GawronJudyta HajdukMarta JanczewskaJolanta JaworskaMaria KoralElla OrlikovaAgata PatalasZuzanna SchnepfAlla ShevcukZuzanna SolakiewiczAnna SzybaAgnieszka WitkowskaVladimir Zaidenberg

OBJA&NIENIA TERMINÓW ORAZ NAZW GEOGRAFICZNYCH / GLOSSES AND GEOGRAPHICAL NAMESAleksandra Ba%kowska

TRANSKRYPCJA /TRANSCRIBINGMicha! LiberaEwa RadczukDorota Radczuk SKANOWANIE / SCANNINGBogna BurskaJakub Rajchman

T$UMACZENIE / TRANSLATORSGrzegorz Kamil GrykoKrystyna MazurJessica Taylor-KuciaMarcin Wawrzy%czakMagdalena WidlakJustyna W!odarczyk

REDAKCJA 'TEKSTY ANGIELSKIE( / EDITORS 'ENGLISH TEXTS(Tomasz Kluz

REDAKCJA 'TEKSTY POLSKIE(I KOORDYNACJA EDITING 'POLISH TEXTS( & COORDINATINGAnka Grupi%ska

PRZYGOTOWANIE WYSTAWY / THIS EXHIBITION WAS PREPARED BYEvgenij GretschkoPawe! Kami%skiMartina LangSilvia Weber

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