Concert commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Artists: ๐ฉ๐ผ๐ถ๐ ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐’ International women’s choir under the direction of Catherine Bolzinger. At the heart of the Voix de Stras’ project is the voice – a capella or in instrumental combinations. ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฏ American gospel and blues singer, songwriter and pianist, granddaughter of African slaves. Honoured with the Order of Arts and Letters (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Ministry of Culture. ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐น French artist, internationally acclaimed singer and actor. In his thirty-year career, he has sold more than 15 million albums, appeared in more than fifty films and hundreds of theatrical productions. ๐ ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฒ๐น ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฎ๐ต๐ฎ๐บ Virtuoso violinist, born in 2003 into a family of classical musicians. He has performed as soloist…
A meeting with Lili Haber, Chairwoman of the Association of the People of Krakow in Israel (Zwiฤ zek Krakowian w Izraelu) took place yesterday, on 18th March 2024 at 6 p.m. at the Kupa Synagogue. The event was combined with the promotion of a book written by prof. dr hab. ลukasz Tomasz Sroka (UKEN), Lili Haber . The second generation after the Holocaust in Israel. The birth of a new nation, preface by Marian Turski. Published by AUSTERIA, Krakow-Budapest-Syracuse 2024. (Drugie pokolenie po Holokauลcie w Izraelu. Narodziny nowego narodu, przedmowa Marian Turski. Wydawnictwo AUSTERIA, Krakรณw-Budapeszt-Syrakuzy 2024. The meeting was hosted by Michaล Zajda (Jewish Religious Community in Krakow). We wish to thank Lili Haber and prof. ลukasz Tomasz Sroka for an engaging discussion and all the guests for coming.
A march of remembrance took place today, 17th March. The walk began at noon from Plac Bohaterรณw Getta and continued to the area of the former KL Plaszow. The annual march of remembrance is organised on the anniversary of the Krakow ghetto liquidation in Podgorze. Local residents, tourists and numerous invited guests participated in the march. The Jewish Religious Community in Krakow was represented by Helena Jakubowicz, Chairwoman of the Board, Tadeusz Jakubowicz, Vice-Chairman of the Board and Boaz Gadka, rabbi of the Jewish Religious Community as well as by other members of the Community. We would like to thank everyone who was with us on that special day.
The KL Plaszow Museum opening ceremony and its outdoor exhibition called KL Plaszow. Miejsce po, miejsce bez took place today, 15th March 2024 at 11:00 a.m. The following representatives took part in the ceremony: Yacov Livne, Ambassador of Israel in Poland, prof. dr hab. Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of Krakow, Mateusz Szpytma Phd, Deputy President of The Institute of National Remembrance, Michaล Niezabitowski PhD, Director of the Historical Museum of Krakow, Lili Haber, Chairwoman of the Association of the People of Krakow in Israel, Roman Kwiatkowski, President of the Board of the Roma Association in Poland as well as many other guests. The Jewish Religious Community in Krakow was represented by Helena Jakubowicz, Chairwoman of the Board. During the speech she said: โIt is a great honour to be able to…
Born in Krakow on 20th November 1927, Miriam Akavia (formerly known as Matylda Weinfeld) was a writer, translator and President of the Polish-Israeli Friendship Society in Israel. She grew up in an assimilated Jewish family. Both of her parents died during WWII, while she spent this period in the Krakow ghetto, KL Plaszow, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps. A strong supporter of the Polish-Jewish reconciliation and the owner of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. โRight after WWII, I thought that I would never put my foot here ever again. Today I know that I cannot erase Poland, especially Krakow, from my lifeโ, said Miriam Akavii during one meeting with the youth in Poland. She died on 16th January 2015 in Tel-Aviv. Her most notable works include:Jesieล…
Born on 16th November 1919 in Krakow, Natan Gross, son of Jakub, was a director, screenwriter, film producer and film critic, poet, writer, editor and a publisher in both Polish and Hebrew. A Krakow’s Hebrew Gymnasium graduate who took his maturity exams in 1938 and who studied at the Faculty of Law at the Jagiellonian University as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts. War, however, ceased his education. Right after WWII broke out, he tried to get to Lviv but when he was just about to enter the city, he learned that Lviv had been occupied by the Soviets and decided to return to Krakow where he stayed until the beginning of 1941. Since that moment, his family’s ordeal began. In the search for shelter, they…
Born on 14th November 1876 in Krakow, Chaim Hilfstein, son of Jakub and Zofia, nรฉe Rosner, was a social and political activist, a Zionist and a consultant in internal medicine who worked at the St.Lazarus hospital in Krakow.He graduated from St.Ann’s gymnasium in Krakow in 1897, followed by Medicine at the Jagiellonian University. Hilfstein obtained his PhD title in 1904. A member of the National Jewish Council for Western Galicia in November 1918. In 1897, Hilfstein co-founded the โPrzed-ลwit-Haszaharโ Jewish Youth Association which was the first Zionist organisation in Krakow. Throughout the interwar period, together with Ozjasz Thon, Hilfstein was one of the leaders of the Zionist Organisation of the Lesser Poland and Silesia region. He was a delegate at Zionist congresses in Karlsbad (1921), Vienna (1925)…
Born on 13th November 1888 in Chrzanow, Ignacy Izaak Schwarzbart, son of Markus Saul and Chana, nรฉe Michalik, was a lawyer, politician and a publicist. A deputy to the Sejm of the 6th term (1938-1939), member of the National Council of the Polish authorities in exile, board member of the Jewish Religious Community in Krakow (1924-1936) as well as a city council member (1933-1939). A 1908 graduate of a gymnasium in Podgorze who studied Law at the Jagiellonian University and obtained his PhD title in1913. After finishing university, he ran his own law firm. During WWI, he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and later on in the Polish Army. Between 1921โ1925, Schwarzbart was the editor-in-chief of Nowy Dziennik, a local Zionist newspaper in Krakow. A member of the Administrative…