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Post by Bonobo on Jan 17, 2016 15:38:40 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 30, 2016 14:33:22 GMT 1
Polish Jewish museum unveils virtual tour
27.01.2016 09:54
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews has created a virtual tour of important pre-war Jewish areas in Warsaw, using Google’s Street View technology.
Wikicommons/W.Kryński
From the comfort of their own living room sofas, internet users will be able to transport themselves “to the world of Nalewki Street and the Muranów quarter – reverberating with the sounds of Yiddish, bustling with pavement stalls and shops,” the museum’s website says.
A 360–degree camera photographed the exhibition in the summer of 2014, going through Jewish Warsaw from the XVI century to 1939, when the city was inhabited by 350,000 Jews, nearly 40 percent of its population.
“Thanks to the restoration of forgotten Jewish heritage, we are providing our collections to internet users all over the world,” Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Museum Collections, Jolanta Gumula said.
The museum’s sixth project, titled ‘Warszawa, Warsze’, is available via Google’s Cultural Institute along with the 1000-year History of Polish Jews- See more at: www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/238200,Polish-Jewish-museum-unveils-virtual-tour#sthash.WjyLY8lA.dpuf
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Post by pjotr on Jan 31, 2016 16:17:56 GMT 1
It is good that Poland has this museum, because for hundreds of years Polish jews and Polish Roman Catholics lived side by side as neighbours and they have a lot of shared history, shared joys and things to be proud of and shared suffering and hardship. A large percentage of jews in the world have Polish roots. Jews in my Netherlands, Jews in Germany, Jews in the USA, Jews of the UK, France, Isrsael, South-Africa and Southern-American countries. Many jews have Polish Ashkenazi roots. Other people inside Poland and outside Poland who consider themselves 100% Western-Slav Roman-Catholic Polish often have Polish jewish parents, one Polish jewish parent or Jewish ancesters, because during the centuries a lot of mixing took place. Maybe also secret relationships and love affairs.
Some Poles found out about their Jewish roots, others will never know. Some Polish jews choose to convert to Roman-Catholicism and said goodbeye to Judaism forever. Judaism was a burden to them in the past. Czarist empire (with it's anti-semitic and anti-Polonist policies, bad for Polish jews, with it's pogroms and other persecution), Polish ultra-nationalism during the Interbellum years (1919-1939), with boycotts of jewish stores and discrimination of jewish students at universities, but worse after that came the Nazi and Sovjet occupation. Polish jews were victim of both the Nazi's and Sovjets. A Polish Jewish family member of my family was murdered by the Sovjets during the Sovjet occupation. His half jewish son was killed during the Warsaw uprising at the end of the war. His wife was Roman-Catholic and from my grandfathers branch of the family. Ofcourse during communism after the war jews were victim of the same Polish and Jewish stalinists who arrested and tortured other Poles.
In 1968 during the last government anti-semitic campaign (disguised as an anti-zionist campaign) the last large wave of Polish jews escaped from Poland. Most of them went to the USA or Israel. Today jewish life in Poland is reviving, also because some Polish Roman-Catholics found out that their parents weren't Roman-Catholic, but Jews in fact. Some of these families are split. Some familymembers who also have that Polish jewish blood, stay Roman-Catholic, while sisters or brothers deciced to convert to judaism.
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 5, 2016 20:02:22 GMT 1
Polish president praises 'magnificent' Jewish museum
04.03.2016 11:52
President Andrzej Duda visited Warsaw's POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews on Thursday evening.
President Andrzej Duda (R) visits the Warsaw museum, accompanied by museum director Dariusz Stola (L). Photo: PAP/Jacek TurczykPresident Andrzej Duda (R) visits the Warsaw museum, accompanied by museum director Dariusz Stola (L). Photo: PAP/Jacek Turczyk
The museum, which opened in its entirety in October 2014, represents one of the largest cultural investments in the Polish capital in recent years.
“The museum is magnificent - not only the wonderful architecture of the building, but above all the exhibition, which shows 900 documented years of shared history,” Duda said.
“It is a museum that everyone should see,” he continued.
Duda said that the entwined history of the Polish and Jewish nations “of course had its better and worse moments” over 900 years,“but it was generally a history of good coexistence.”
The president expressed his hope that young Jews from Israel and the United States, while visiting Holocaust sites, will also visit the Warsaw museum.
About 3 million Polish Jews perished during World War II as a result of the extermination policies of the Nazi German occupiers. Poland's underground state, which served the Polish government-in-exile in London, operated a council of aid to Jews [Żegota]. However, recent historiography, confirmed by Poland's state Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) has highlighted that some ethnic Poles carried out pogroms against Jews during the war.- See more at: www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/243288,Polish-president-praises-magnificent-Jewish-museum#sthash.lreSEnd8.dpuf
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Post by Bonobo on May 13, 2016 21:45:27 GMT 1
Warsaw POLIN Museum of Polish Jews gets prestigious European award
09.05.2016 09:37
The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw has received the European Museum Academy (EMA) Prize.
Established by the European Museum Academy in 2010, it is given to organisations, researchers and cultural institutions for creating pioneering museums or producing studies and carrying on projects of European relevance.
A citation for the prize says that the POLIN Museum in Warsaw “is not just an excellent museum but a state of the art cultural institution which reaches diverse publics all over the world. That is why it deserves the title of a ‘Total Museum’. The diversity and variety of its activities and the scope of its aims and goals makes it a unique institution with a worldwide impact”.
In 2011 the EMA Prize was awarded to the Galileo Museum in Florence, and in 2013 to the Foundation Europeana in The Hague.
The director of the POLIN Museum will collect the prize during a ceremony at the Annual General Meeting of the Europeana Network Association in Riga on 8 November.
Earlier this year, The POLIN museum received the European Museum of the Year Award, a distinction which has been given annually since 1977 by the European Museum Forum, which acts under the auspices of the Council of Europe.
Situated at the site of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto, the POLIN Museum documents 1,000 years of history of Polish Jews and their contribution to various aspects of Polish political, economic and cultural life.- See more at: www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/251946,Warsaw-POLIN-Museum-of-Polish-Jews-gets-prestigious-European-award#sthash.uNFctSUR.dpuf
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 9, 2017 1:35:31 GMT 1
Warsaw POLIN Museum of Polish Jews gets EU Prize
06.04.2017 10:53
The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw has received the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage.
Known as Europa Nostra Awards, they are given by the European Commission and Europa Nostra, a federation of NGOs from 40 European countries dealing with cultural heritage.
The POLIN Museum was honoured in the ‘Education, training and awareness raising’ category for its educational programme focusing on Jewish cultural heritage.
It is one of the 29 Europa Nostra laureates from 18 countries which have been recognised for their achievements also in conservation, research, and dedicated service.
A total of 202 applications from 39 European countries have been examined by an international panel of experts.
The POLIN Museum launched its educational programme in 2013. It has since attracted 445,000 participants in 240 towns and localities. The educational content of the Museum’s website has had over five million visitors.
Last year, The POLIN museum received the European Museum of the Year Award, a distinction which has been given annually since 1977 by the European Museum Forum, which acts under the auspices of the Council of Europe. (mk/rg)
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