Joanna Król is involved in the project of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews since 2007 when as a museum’s scholar she took part in the Polish-Israeli students’ exchange and studied at the Tel Aviv University. She graduated Polish literature, linguistics and history of Polish Jewry at the University of Warsaw. Worked for the museum as film maker and education programs coordinator; currently holding a position of the oral history specialist and digital collections projects coordinator. Co-author of the film ”The Rescued” and the exhibition “They risked their lives – Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust”. Both projects were based on the museum’s documentation and education program “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History”.

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For one thousand years Poland has been a home to Jewish people.
Despite the unbearable experience of the Holocaust their existence continues and is being told
at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
We learn about it through thousands of individual stories described in exhibitions, collections
and Internet projects.
Storytelling helps people – Jews, non-Jews, Poles and non-Poles - to reconnect with this history
and preserve it in their collective memory.

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Unofficial ceremony commemorating the anniversary
of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. April 17th, 1988.
/Photo: Anna Beata Bohdziewicz, East News/

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Area of the Warsaw
ghetto (a view toward
the Old City) pictured
by Henry N. Cobb in
1947. /Photo: Henry N.
Cobb/

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Museum
of the History
of Polish
Jews, May
2012 /Photo:
Marek Łoś/

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Purim in Opatów. From the book “They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories
of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust”. To the left: authors of the
book Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and her father Mayer Kirshenblatt. /Photos: BKG/

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Curator Ewa Małkowska-
Bieniek presenting the
Gwoździec synagogue’s
roof located in the
Paradisus Iudaeorum
gallery, February 2014.
/Photo: Magdalena
Starowieyska/

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Holocaust gallery. Adam
Czerniaków’s testimony.
/Photo: Magdalena
Starowieyska/

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Girl skirt donated by Anna
Trachtenherc. Anna was forced to leave
Poland following the anitsemitic
campaign of March 1968. At the time,
Anna was already a student, but took
this item with her to Sweden, toghether
with school exercise books for Polish
history and language.
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Part of matzevah – donated to the Museum
by Stanisław Materniak who found it in
1990 during demolition work on a site
which belonged to the Peasant’ Self-Help
Co-opertive in Krosno. It served as
a sharpening stone for knives and tools.
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Virtual Shtetl – a social phenomenon; a portal documenting Jewish life –
its PAST and PRESENT. /Photo: www.sztetl.org.pl/

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/Photos: www.sztetl.org.pl/

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Władysław Bartoszewski
and Zygmunt Stępiński
with the youth from the
Muranów district during
the 70th anniversary of
the establishment of the
„Żegota” Council for Aid
to Jews, December 2012.
/Photo:
www.sprawiedliwi.org.pl/

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/Photos: www.sprawiedliwi.org.pl,
Jewish Historical Institute/

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Visit our websites:
www.jewishmuseum.org.pl
www.sztetl.org.pl
www.sprawiedliwi.org.pl
judaica.jewishmuseum.org.pl
THANK YOU
Joanna Król
Digital Collections Department
jkrol@jewishmuseum.org.pl