Discussion "The Survivors and the Righteous in literary testimony"
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews invites to
the discussion:
The Survivors and the Righteous in literary testimony.
Hiding and providing aid to Jews during the Holocaust – accounts of the Survivors and the Righteous and their literary transfigurations.
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010, 6 pm
Empik Megastore, 116/122 Marszałkowska Street, Warsaw
The discussion will take place on the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Karol Kuryluk – journalist, community worker and cultural activist, Righteous Among the Nations. It is the first of a series of meetings devoted to the Righteous, organized as part of the project “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History” by the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
In the discussion will participate:
Ewa Kuryluk – art historian, painter, poet
Wilhelm Dichter - writer
Dr. Jacek Leociak - IBL PAN, Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Moderator – Anna Bikont
admission free
Ewa Kuryluk– artist, writer, art historian. She participated in about 40 individual and 60 collective exhibitions. Daughter of Karol Kuryluk– Righteous Among the Nations. Author of autobiographical books in which she copes with the Holocaust experience: „Goldi” (2004) and „Frascati” (2009), nominated to the Nike Literary Award.
Wilhelm Dichter– Survivor of the Holocaust, emigrant of 1968. Author of novels based on his own biography:„Koń Pana Boga” („God’s Horse”, 1996) and „Szkoła bezbożników” (“School of the Godless”, 1999), nominated to the Nike Literary Award. His novel „Lekcje angielskiego” („English Lessons”) was published in 2010.
Jacek Leociak– Assistant Professor in the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN). Director of the Holocaust Literature Research Center of IBL PAN, member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research, editor of the annual “Holocaust Studies and Materials”, member of the team preparing the core exhibition of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. His research focuses on the forms of recording border-line experiences (in particular from the time of the Holocaust).
Anna Bikont – Co-founder of the newspaper „Gazeta Wyborcza”, where she has been working since 1989 to this day. Author of numerous books, among others: „Wisławy Szymborskiej pamiątkowe rupiecie, przyjaciele i sny” („The Souvenir Junks, Friends and Dreams of Wisława Szymborska” written with Joanna Szczęsna, 2003); „My z Jedwabnego” (“We from Jedwabne”, 2004); „Lawina i kamienie. Pisarze wobec komunizmu”(„Avalanche and Stones. Polish Writers and Communism” written with Joanna Szczęsna, 2006).
