1st October: OPENING (14:00 – 15:00)

Opening of the outdoor exhibition "Nie było domu, gdzie by nie zabrano kogoś z najbliższych" (There was no home where someone wasn’t taken) about the October deportation from the Krakow ghetto which will take plase at the Ghetto Heroes Square (Plac Bohaterów Getta).

On 28th October 1942, the Germans deported several thousand Jews from the Krakow ghetto to the Bełżec death camp. Among the victims of the October deportation were children from the Jewish Orphanage and their caretakers, patients from Jewish hospitals in the ghetto, as well as many people holding valid work permits. Those designated for deportation were escorted to Concord Square — now Ghetto Heroes Square.

After the war, a few survivors gave testimonies about their wartime experiences to the Provincial Jewish Historical Commission in Krakow. Some of them described in detail the events that took place in the ghetto on 28th October 1942. Sabina Mirowska recalled that the director of the Jewish orphanage, Anna Feuerstein, had a chance to avoid deportation but chose to stay with the children, saying, "I’ve been with the children for over twenty years, and I will stay with them in this moment". On the 82nd anniversary of these tragic events, using the testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, we will remember the fate of those whose lives were brutally interrupted.

●     Exhibition scenario author and curator: Katarzyna Kocik.
●     Activity is available in Polish and English.