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The exhibition 'Cracow during the occupation – photographs and documents' in the Stradom Centre of Dialogue's Gallery

event-date: 26.03.2013 - 26.04.2013
Place: Stradom Centre of Dialogue's Gallery, Cracow, Stradomska 11

We would like to invite you to the new temporary exhibition named 'Cracow during the occupation – photographs and documents' organized by the Stradom Centre of Dialogue's Gallery in cooperation with the Jagiellonian University Museum. The opening event will take place on the 26th March at 16:00 in the Stradom Centre of Dialogue's Gallery.

The exhibition 'Cracow during the occupation – photographs and documents' in the Stradom Centre of Dialogue's Gallery on Stradomska 11 street was organised on the occasion of:

70th anniversary of liquidation of the Cracow ghetto

90th birthday anniversary of the chairman of Cracow Photography Society, mgr Władysław Klimczak

To commemorate the two protagonists of photo exhibitions, commonly organized by the Cracow Photography Society and Stradom Centre of Dialogue, who have passed recently – citizens of Cracow born in the pre-war period, Ryszard Ores and Stella Müller-Madej.

The opening event will take place precisely ten years after a similarly named exhibition from 2003, which was shown in the Nafta Gallery, with the special guest Niklas Frank – the son of the General Governor Hans Frank – the author of critical books about his parents.

The current exhibition features 90 photos in A3 format, depicting the life in the occupied Cracow (the Germans in the Wawel castle, the Main Square, the Jagiellonian Library, the Collegium Novum Aula, and in the Collegium Nowodworskiego courtyard on ul. Św. Anny), as well as the family history of Ryszard Ores and Stella Müller-Madej. The latter was the author of an excellent book entitled 'Oczami dziecka – dziewczynka z Listy Schindlera' ('Through the eyes of an child – a little girl from the Schindler's List'), translated into many European languages and even into Japanese. Those books, together with the personal drawer-chest with family keepsakes, will be displayed in the exhibition.

Other features of the exhibition:

Seven banners, each 3 metres long, depicting the daily life in the occupational capital of the General Government

a number of recently found objects related to Jewish religious practice, like tallits, phylacteries with satin pouches, and a cup for hand washing from the mid-19th century. All of them were passed to Polish neigbhours by their Jewish compatriotrs before the deportation to to death camps

some recently found David star armbands from the Cracow ghetto and the Płaszów concentration camp, also documents sent from Cracow to the main headquarters of the SS in Munich, holding orders given by the occupational authorities to the Jewish citizens of Cracow. They were found by accident and brought to Cracow in the post-war period by Prof. Estreicher and now form a part of the JU Museum' collection.

Original photographs of Oskar Schindler and his employees from the Emalia factory, with keepsakes from his office located at ul. Lipowa, passed to the Stradom Centre of Dialogue by his personal secretary, Dr. Maria Ogiegło-Orlińska.

The exhibition will be open from 26th March to 26th May 2013.

prof. dr hab. Aleksander Skotnicki

Published Date: 26.03.2013
Published by: Paweł Siemianowski