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Warsaw Ghetto Museum
The Warsaw Ghetto Museum is a historical museum in Warsaw currently under construction. The target seat of the Museum is the historic complex of the former Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital at Śliska 51 St./Sienna 60 St. The opening of the facility is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2025. Since 2018, the Museum Director is Albert Stankowski. Hanna Wróblewska is the Deputy Director for Research and Exhibition Programming, and Joanna Dudelewicz is the Deputy Director for Investment, Economic and Organisational Affairs. The mission of the institution is to disseminate knowledge about the everyday life, survival strategies, fight and extermination of Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and other ghettos on territory of the occupied Poland. The Museum's team is working on the creation of a permanent exhibition in the revitalised building of the former Bersohn and Bauman Children's Hospital, collecting archives, artefacts and testimonies of memory and drawing on the achi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szpital Dziecięcy Bersohnów I Baumanów Gmach Główny Ul
Szpital is a village in Inowrocław County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately east of Inowrocław, south-west of Toruń, and south-east of Bydgoszcz. The village has a population of 166."Central Statistical Office (GUS) - Population: Structure by economic age groups" (in Polish). 2011-03-21. References Villages in Inowrocław County {{Inowrocław-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanukkah Menorah
A Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiah,Also called a chanukiah ( he, מנורת חנוכה ''menorat ḥanukkah'', pl. ''menorot''; also he, חַנֻכִּיָּה ''ḥanukkiyah'', or ''chanukkiyah'', pl. ''ḥanukkiyot''/''chanukkiyot'', or yi, חנוכּה לאָמפּ ''khanuke lomp'', lit. "Hanukkah lamp") is a nine-branched candelabrum lit during the eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Eight of the nine branches hold lights (candles or oil lamps) that symbolize the eight nights of the holiday; on each night, one more light is lit than the previous night, until on the final night all eight branches are ignited. The ninth branch holds a candle, called the ''shamash'' ("helper" or "servant"), which is used to light the other eight. The Hanukkah menorah commemorates, but is distinct from, the seven-branched menorah used in the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. Along with the seven-branched menorah and the Star of David, it is among the most widely produced articles of Jewish ceremo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monument To The Ghetto Heroes
The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes ( pl, Pomnik Bohaterów Getta) is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 during the Second World War. It is located in the area which was formerly a part of the Warsaw Ghetto, at the spot where the first armed clash of the uprising took place. The monument was built partly of Nazi German materials originally brought to Warsaw in 1942 by Albert Speer for his planned works. The completed monument was formally unveiled in April 1948. History and description The monument was raised in the square bordered by Anielewicza Street, Karmelicka Street, Lewartowskiego Street and Zamenhofa Street."The First Warsaw Ghetto Heroes Monument ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Rapoport
Nathan Rapoport (1911–1987) was a Warsaw-born Jewish sculptor and painter, later a resident of Israel and then the United States. Biography Natan Yaakov Rapoport was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1936, he won a scholarship to study in France and Italy. He fled to the Soviet Union when the Nazis invaded Poland. The Soviets initially provided him with a studio, but then forced him to work as a manual laborer. When the war ended, he returned to Poland to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and immigrated to Israel. In 1959, he moved to the United States. He lived in New York City until his death in 1987. Monumental art His sculptures in public places, with the year they were installed in, include: * ''Monument to the Ghetto Heroes'' (1948), bronze, Warsaw, Poland * ''Memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising'' (1976), bronze, at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; a slightly modified replica of the Warsaw monumentElsby, Liz''Rapoport's Memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – a Personal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westerbork Transit Camp
Camp Westerbork ( nl, Kamp Westerbork, german: Durchgangslager Westerbork, Drents: ''Börker Kamp; Kamp Westerbörk'' ), also known as Westerbork transit camp, was a Nazi transit camp in the province of Drenthe in the Northeastern Netherlands, during World War II. It was located in the municipality of Westerbork, current-day Midden-Drenthe. Camp Westerbork was used as a staging location for sending Jews to concentration camps elsewhere. Purpose of Camp Westerbork The camp location was established by the Government of the Netherlands in the summer of 1939 to serve as a refugee camp for Germans and Austrians (German and Austrian Jews in particular), who had fled to the Netherlands to escape Nazi persecution. However, after the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940, that original purpose no longer existed. By 1942, Camp Westerbork was repurposed as a staging ground for the deportation of Jews. Only one-half square kilometre (119 acres) in area, the camp was not built f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. Early life and education Farocki was born as Harun El Usman FaroqhiMargalit Fox (3 August 2014)''New York Times''. in Neutitschein, which is now Nový Jičín in the Czech Republic. His father, Abdul Qudus Faroqui, had immigrated to Germany from India in the 1920s. His German mother had been evacuated from Berlin due to the Allied bombing of Germany. He simplified the spelling of his surname as a young man. After World War II Farocki grew up in India and Indonesia before the family resettled in Hamburg in 1958. Farocki, who was deeply influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Luc Godard, studied at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) from 1966 to 1968. He began making films – from the very beginning, they were non-narrative essays on the politics of imagery – in the mid-1960s. From 1974 to 1984, when its publication ceased, he edited the magazine '' Filmkritik' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceija Stojka
Ceija Stojka (23 May 1933 – 28 January 2013) was an Austrian Romani writer, painter, activist, and musician, and survivor of the Holocaust. Life Stojka was born in Kraubath an der Mur, Styria, in 1933 as the fifth of six children to mother Maria "Sidi" Rigo Stojka and father Karl "Wackar" Horvath.French, L.. (2008). An Austrian Roma Family Remembers: Trauma and Gender in Autobiographies by Ceija, Karl, and Mongo Stojka. ''German Studies Review'', ''31''(1), 68. Two of her brothers, Karl "Karli" Stojka and Johann "Mongo" Stojka, were also writers and musicians. The family were Roman Catholic Lovara Roma, members of the Bagareschtschi clan on their father's side and Giletschi clan on their mother's side. The Stojkas were horse-traders whose caravan spent winters in Vienna and summers travelling through the Austrian countryside, where the family could trace their heritage for over 200 years. Together with her mother and four of the five brothers, she survived the Holocaust and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryan S , pseudonym of Israeli-American artist Pinchas Burstein
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Maryan may refer to: * ''Maryan'' (film), a 2013 Tamil film ** ''Maryan'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack for the 2013 Tamil film * Maryan, Bulgaria, a village in Elena Municipality, Veliko Tarnovo Province, Bulgaria * Maryan, Iran (other) * M. Maryan, pseudonym of French novelist (1847-1927) * Maryan S. Maryan Pinchas Burstein (1927–1977), later known as Maryan S. Maryan, was a Polish-born Jewish post-expressionist painter. Early life Pinchas Burstein (Bursztyn) was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland, on January 1, 1927, the second son of an Orthodox Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustav Metzger
Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926, Nuremberg – 1 March 2017, London) was a German artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966. Metzger was recognised for his protests in the political and artistic realms. Early life and education Metzger was born to Polish Jewish parents in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1926 and came to Britain in 1939 as a refugee under the auspices of the Refugee Children Movement. He lost his Polish citizenship and was stateless since the late 1940s. He received a grant from the UK Jewish community to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp between 1948 and 1949. It is with an experience of twentieth century society's destructive capabilities that led Metzger to a concentrated 'formulation of what destruction is and what it might be in relation to art.'Pioneers in Art and Science: Metzger (film), Ken McMullen (film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Rosenstein
Erna Rosenstein (17 May 1913 – 10 November 2004) was a surrealist painter and poet. Biography She was the daughter of an Austrian-Jewish judge and Ukrainian mom. She was born in the town of Lemberg, Austria-Hungary. In 1918 they moved to Kraków. In November 1918 Poland regained its independence as the Second Polish Republic. Her father wanted her to take up in the family business of law. She however studied at (1932–1934) and Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (1934–1936). She was a Communist and belonged to a group of artists known as the , which she had met at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Her works were evoked by her experiences as a Jew in Nazi-occupied Poland. She and her parents went to Warsaw, but her parents were murdered by a Polish bandit, while they were trying to find a safe place. She was severely wounded in the attack, but survived. After the war she was confronted with the reality of Communism. Having idealized it earlier, she ran into conflict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Hechtkopf
Henryk Hechtkopf ( he, הנריק הכטקופף; April 4, 1910 – July 2004) was an artist, painter, and illustrator. Biography Henryk Hechtkopf was an artist whose legacy is a rare collection of paintings in a variety of media, as well as illustrations for many children's books and Stories of The Tzadikim. Hechtkopf's work encompasses a range of subjects and artistic styles: biblical scenes and portraits, surrealism and abstract expressionism. His work is interesting not only by its own merits but because of the life story that stands behind it. Hechtkopf was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw in 1910, the younger child of two. His father was a merchant, and his mother a midwife. Hechtkopf studied in the Hebrew Gymnasium "Chanoch" and then in Warsaw University. After obtaining his law degree, Hechtkopf became the first Jewish jurist to article at the Polish Supreme Court. From early on, his artistic talent was evident. At the age of 23, his work was consistently selected to ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Cemetery In Warsaw
Jewish cemeteries of Warsaw refers to a number of Jewish necropolises in the city. Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe. Located on Okopowa Street and abutting the Powązki Cemetery, the Jewish Cemetery was established in 1806 and occupies 33 hectares (83 acres) of land. It is now the site of numerous overgrown and abandoned graves and crypts, having fallen in disrepair after the Nazi invasion of Poland and subsequent Holocaust. Although it was closed down during World War II, after the war it was reopened and a small portion of it remains active, serving Warsaw's small remaining Jewish population. Bródno Jewish Cemetery Bródno Jewish Cemetery was once much bigger than the earlier cemetery and served both the Jews of the right-bank borough of Praga and poorer Jews of other boroughs of the city of Warsaw. After the Okopowa Street cemetery became overcrowded, the Praga cemetery was intended as the main Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
