Erin Einhorn at the 20th Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow

Maria Zawadzka, 16 November 2016
On Friday, July 2nd 2010 at noon took place, as part of the 20th Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow (Empik Tent, square next to Jakuba Street), a meeting with Erin Einhorn, author of the book “The Pages in Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home” (published in Poland by Znak, 2010).

Erin Einhorn is a reporter for the “New York Daily News”. She has also written for the “Philadelphia Inquirer”, “Philadelphia Daily News” and “Fortune”. Full of fear and prejudice, Einhorn comes to Poland to find the Skowroński family, who saved her mother during the Holocaust. She wants to know the truth about the hiding and learn more about the history of her own family. She is planning a happy ending: reuniting the two families who during the Second World War jointly rescued her mother. But when she meets Wiesław Skowroński, the son of the woman who saved her mother, she starts to understand that she will learn things far more complicated and ambiguous than she would have ever expected. She tries to confront the past and the conflicts that grew between the families. She tries to solve the mysteries that have been hidden from her for years, and find a way between truth and memory.

The Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, which first took place in 1988, is one of the most important and largest events of this kind in the world. This year’s edition started on June 25th and ended on July 4th, 2010. For over a week, its participants listened to klezmer, Hasidic, classical and Jewish folk music, saw exhibitions, presentations, films and performances. Numerous workshops were organized, among others: Hebrew calligraphy, Hasidic dance and song, Jewish paper cutting, cooking.

The exact program of the event can be found on the official website of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow.