“MultiMemo. Inclusive Memory of Warsaw”

“MultiMemo. Inclusive Memory of Warsaw” is a series of events that will take place from April 16-23, 2023, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The program aims to listen to and recreate a polyphonic narrative woven from the memories of the participants in these events. Discussions, walks, meetings, and artistic projects will enable a multidimensional experience of the different memories of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the former Jewish residents of Warsaw. The multi-memory which we – Warsaw Jews inherit and carry on in different ways – as different as we all are.

We invite you to participate in “MultiMemo. Inclusive Memory of Warsaw” and commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during the following events:

• April 16, 2023, 5:00 PM, Shucked memory:

Meeting about Warsaw Ghetto Uprising heroins around the book “A Question of Character. Women fighters from the Warsaw Ghetto” (Czarne).

Shana Penn, Taube Foundation, Network of East-West Women in conversation with Sylwia Chutnik (editor) and Patrycja Dołowy, Zuzanna Hertzberg, Natalia Judzińska, Karolina Sulej (authors). With an introduction by Monika Sznajderman (editor and publisher).

|| Location: JCC Warsaw, Chmielna 9A st

• April 18, 2023, 7:00 PM, Sound memory:

Michał Michalski, piano concert tribute to inhabitants of Warsaw Ghetto. The program includes Chopin’s Nocturne in C-sharp minor and Moscheles’s Sonata Melancholique, among others.

|| Location: JCC Warsaw, Chmielna 9A st

• April 19, 2023, 12:00 PM, Grassroot VI Independent Commemoration of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Anniversary.

Our memory must continue despite the difficulties of our times. This year, we gather again beacause we remember. We remember what happened. We remember those that fought. We remember those that died. And we remember those that kept that memory alive. For us, as for Marek Edelman, the commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is a matter of memory. We do not want to take part in official commemorations, appropriated by politicians. We believe that memory should be a common good, created from the bottom up.

|| Location: Monument on Szmul Zygielbojm square

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  April 19, 2023, 9:00 PM, Local memory: The Great Synagogue Restores Memory, a spectacle by Gabi von Seltmann organised with Open Republic.

|| Location: Bankowy Square

• April 20, 2023, 2:00 PM, Personal memory:

Zikaron BaSalon with Józef Hen, the oldest Holocaust survivor from Warsaw.

|| Location: JCC Warsaw, Chmielna 9A st

• April 21, 2023, 12:00 PM, Marginalised memory:

A guided walk with Paula Sawicka, following the traces of Marek Edelman and Michał Klepfisz. With Open Republic and Makabi Warsaw

II Location: Franciszkańska 14 (corner of Bonifraterska)

• April 21, 2023, 8:00 PM, Marginalised memory:

Shabbat with Irena Klepfisz. lesbian poet, child Holocaust survivor from Warsaw Ghetto and political activist  and with her poems searching for diverse memories and identities, read by actors, translators and invited guests

|| Location: JCC Warsaw, Chmielna 9A st

• April 23, 2023, 12:00 PM , Entangled memory:

Women’s Civic Disobedience – a guided walk with Jagna Kofta.

|| Location: Palace of Culture in the front of Studio Theatre

• April 23, 2023, 4:00 PM, Entangled memory:

Patrycja Dołowy in conversation with the children of Holocaust: Inka Sobolewska-Pyz, Matti Greenberg and Anna Liro.

Inka, a girl brought out of the Warsaw ghetto through the sewers, did not know her history until she was eighteen, she did not know about her first parents. Matti Greenberg, Tolek, the boy left on the train, did not know his story for years. Anna – the story of her mother is connected with the stories of both of these now grown children. They all discovered it very recently. Patrycja Dołowy, the author of “I’ll be back when you asleep. Talks with Children of the Holocaust” will talk with them about their etangled fates.

|| Location: JCC Warsaw, Chmielna 9A st

The events will be held in English and Polish. Participation is free, but due to limited seating, registration is required via the form: https://bit.ly/polifonie-form

The organizer of the event is the JCC Warsaw Foundation. The event is organized in partnership with Festivalt, Fundacja Urban Memory, Fundacja Zapomniane, Hochschule Fur Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, Ceji, Fundacja Dokumentacji Cmentarzy Żydowskich, Fundacja Formy Wspólne, Otwarta Rzeczpospolita, Wydawnictwo Czarne, Makabi Warszawa.
The program is implemented thanks to the support of the European Union under the program Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV).

For more information contact: https://www.jccwarszawa.pl/eng