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Sunday, August 16, 5 p.m.

Former Jewish school "Tarbut", 41D Lipowa Street, Bialystok

Program:

Hosts: Elżbieta Smoleńska and Dariusz Szada-Borzyszkowski.

Songs in Yiddish: Joanna Czaban, scenario Tomasz Wiśniewski

Sunday, August 16, 4 p.m.

● Daniel Paczkowski - History of the Tarbut building.

● Tomasz Butkiewicz - Burning of the Great Synagogue.

● Conversation with Marta Wołkowycka, granddaughter of Józef Bartoszko, who saved Jews from the burning synagogue. Hosted by Katarzyna Sztop-Rutkowska and Tomasz Wiśniewski.

● Piotr Trojniel - Białystok synagogues.

● Jerzy Grygorczuk - Unveiling of the model of the Great Synagogue.

● Marta Pietruszko - Benn Cijon Rabinowicz - gifted son of the architect of the Great Synagogue.

● Daniel Paczkowski - How do Jews find their Białystok roots?

● Elżbieta Smoleńska - Overview of "Voices from Bialystok Ghetto" the book by Michael Nevins.

● Grzegorz Radziewicz - Let`s Rebuild the Great Synagogue (performance).

● Lech Mazurek Trio concert.

● Screening of a film about the granddaughter of a Białystok rabbi.

17.08.2020 Monday, 17.00

● Tomasz Wiśniewski - The Most Distinguished Jews of Białystok and the Region - the exhibition by Tomasz Brański.

● Kazimierz Trzęsicki - Chaim Zelig Słonimski - a famous forgotten Jew from Białystok.

● Karol Głębocki and Dawid Gudel - Shtetls and Jewish towns in the Białystok region.

● Mirosław Reczko - Memoirs of the Jews from the Bialystok Region.

● Joanna Auron Górska - Opening of the Judaica exhibition.

● Opening of the exhibition of artists from the Białystok region. Grzegorz Radziewicz, Joanna Auron-Górska, Stanisław Żywolewski, Mateusz Wolfram.

● A triple voice on photography: Mieczysław Marczak on Jewish photographers of Białystok, Grzegorz Dąbrowski on Jewish subjects in the photographs of Bolesław Augustis, Tomasz Wiśniewski on underwater photography of Mike Rotschild, who found his hometown Goniądz underwater.

● Templates by Wojtek Koronkiewicz.

● Zbigniew Romaniuk - Why do most of the Righteous Among Nations from the entire Podlasie region come from Brańsk?

● Films:

- "Test" about Zbyszek Siwiński, who was looking for his real Jewish name.

- "This country speaks to me" about a Jewish family that was looking for their roots in the Białystok region.

The exhibitions will be held in the building of the former Jewish school Tarbut, 41D Lipowa Street. Meetings with guests and authors of the exhibitions will take place in the front lawn of the building. The organizers will inform participants about the sanitary rules (social distance, visiting rules).

Organizers:

Association of the Museum of Białystok Jews

Sleńdziński Gallery in Białystok

Białystok Cultural Center