7th edition of the Festival “Warsaw of Singer” devoted to the Righteous Among the Nations

Maria Zawadzka, 16 November 2016
The program of the 7th edition of the Festival of Jewish Culture “Warsaw of Singer” has been published on the website of its organizer, the Shalom Foundation. This edition it will take place from August 28th to September 5th, 2010. This year the Festival will be devoted to the Righteous Among the Nations and it is on their lives and history that the first day of the Festival (Saturday, August 28th) will focus.

At 1 pm will take place a meeting with the members of the Polish Society of the Righteous Among the Nations: Jadwiga Gawrych, Alicją Schnepf and Józef Walaszczyk. The meeting will be moderated by Justyna Sobolewska. At 3 pm will take place a screening of a documentary devoted to the Polish Righteous. At 5 pm the participants of the Festival will have the occasion to meet Janina Zgrzembska, daughter of the Righteous Irena Sendler – this event will be organized in the Mamele Club (12/16 Grzybowski Square).

At 6pm will start the official celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the Polish Society of the Righteous Among the Nations. As part of the celebrations, speeches will be delivered by the president of the Society Anna Stupnicka-Bando, other guests and Gołda Tencer, president of the Shalom Foundation. Distinctions will be presented to people actively helping the Society. An exhibition devoted to the Righteous Among the Nations will be presented in the foyer of the Jewish Theater at Grzybowski Square.

The Polish Society of the Righteous Among the Nations was founded in 1985. Its members are Polish citizens who have been honored with the title and medal of Righteous Among the Nations. The goals of the society are to disseminate information about the occupation, the Holocaust and the actions of the Righteous, and to fight against anti-Semitism and xenophobia. One of the central components of their work is to meet with young people and to talk to them about the Nazi occupation and their personal roles during those years. More about the Polish Society of the Righteous Among the Nations. 

The Shalom Foundation has been organizing the Festival of Jewish Culture "Warsaw of Singer" since 2004. The 100th anniversary of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s birthday was the reason to organize the first edition of this event. The Festival preserves the memory of prewar Jewish Warsaw. The aim of the Shalom Foundation is to reconstruct for a few days the prewar atmosphere of Próżna Street in order to present the annihilated world of the Polish Jews. Every year among the events being part of the Festival are concerts, film screenings, song and dance workshops, paper cutting, ceramics and Hebrew calligraphy. More about the Festival.