The “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre in Lublin is a local government cultural institution. It works towards the preservation of cultural heritage and education. Its function is tied to the symbolic and historical meaning of the Centre’s location in the Grodzka Gate, which used to divide Lublin into its respective Christian and Jewish quarters, as well as to Lublin as a meeting place of cultures, traditions and religions.
Part of the Centre are the House of Words and the Lublin Underground Trail.
The “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre in Lublin is a local government cultural institution. It works towards the preservation of cultural heritage and education. Its function is tied to the symbolic and historical meaning of the Centre’s location in the Grodzka Gate, which used to divide Lublin into its respective Christian and Jewish quarters, as well as to Lublin as a meeting place of cultures, traditions and religions.
Part of the Centre are the House of Words and the Lublin Underground Trail.
In the night of 16th/17th March, 1942 an operation of Podzamcze ghetto liquidation began. At that time first transport of 1,400 people to the Bełżec death camp departed. Until the middle of April, 1942 more than 28,000 of Jewish people were sent there. This date is considered as a beginning of Operation Reinhard – the extermination of Jewish people in the General Government area.
When in March 1942 the Podzamcze ghetto was liquidated, more than a hundred of children from the Jewish Orphanage in 11 Grodzka Street was taken by trucks to meadows, located near a sand mine in Majdan Tatarski, and murdered there.
April 19th is celebrated in Polish schools as a Day of Holocaust Remembrance and Counteracting Crimes against Humanity. Every year on this day the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre carries on the “Letters to Henio” project.
