Jewish Day at the Świętokrzyskie Museum Days

The program of this event included, among others: the temporary exhibition “History of some of the Kielce schools” which presented the history of local Jewish schools, reading of literary texts in Yiddish and a thematic tour around Kielce.

In the program of the tour is also the sightseeing of the Kielce ghetto memorial, the “Menorah”, the former synagogue, the “Righteous Among the Nations” monument, the monument commemorating the victims of the Kielce pogrom, the tenement on Planty Street and the prayer house of the Zagajski family.

In Kielce, in front of the National Archive building is located the monument “Righteous Among the Nations”, created in 1996 and devoted to the Poles killed by Nazis between 1939 and 1945 for saving Jews. Next to this monument an obelisk is located: “To the memory of 27 000 Jews from the Kielce Ghetto murdered by the Germans between 1939 and 1944 in Kielce and in Treblinka and other extermination camps”.

During the visit particular emphasis was put on Polish-Jewish relations. The organizers were trying to present the complex character of these relations, that is why its central elements were the Polish Righteous, the Jewish community in Poland and the extermination of Jews in Poland.