Jewish Museum Preview
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
08.09.2014 17:40
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Michal Kubicki takes a look at the forthcoming Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews is preparing for this autumn's grand opening.
The museum. Photo: wikipedia
The focal point of the museum's first gallery, which has just been unveiled to the public, is the forest.
It symbolizes Poland a 1000 years ago when the first Jews, fleeing persecution in Western Europe, arrived on Polish lands.
Legend has it that they heard birds chirping ‘Po-lin, Po-lin’, the Hebrew name for Poland which also means ‘rest here’.
Listen to thisreport in which Museum Director Dariusz Stola and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett from New York University talk about the Polin legend, setting the scene for the grand opening of the core exhibition on 28 October.
Dariusz Stola says: ‘This is a museum of life. We tell the story of 1000 years of Jewish history in Poland and of course we have a very powerful gallery on the German occupation and the Holocaust in Poland but this is not our last gallery and not the only gallery.’