Rescue of Jews in Tykocin
The program included 7 lectures. Ewa Opawska from the Museum of the History of Polish Jews presented the project "Polish Righteous - Recalling Forgotten History".
Dr. Ewa Rogalewska gave a lecture devoted to the heroes honored by the Yad Vashem Institute with the title “Righteous Among the Nations”. It was entitled “The Righteous Among the Nations – help offered to Jews in the area of Tykocin during the Second World War”.
Apart from that, 5 other lectures were given: Prof. Józef Maroszek – “Tykocin Jews between the 16th and the 18th century”; Prof. Adam Dobroński – “Białystok Jews renewing contacts with their hometown after the Second World War”; MA Tomasz Wiśniewski – “Unexisting photosphere. Tykocin Great Synagogue before 1939 on archival photos by Jan Glinka, Szymon Zajczyk and Herman Struck. Inscriptions, details and unsolved mysteries”; MA Ewa Wroczyńska – “Tykocin as a religious center of Jewish communities in the Podlasie region from the 16th to the 18th century”; MA Andrzej Lechowski – “Jewish market place in Białystok”.
After the symposium was held a debate entitled “Jews in the tradition of Tykocin and Białystok”.
