Workshops

Workshops about theJewish life & culture in Lublin

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Journey to the shtetl with I. B.Singer - a picture of multicultural towns and villages of East Poland before World War II

The idea of this workshop is based on a presentation of shtetl's culture as a common heritage of Poles and Jews as well as on calling participants attention to a long coexistence of representatives of many nations: Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Belorussians, Germans etc. as neighbors, who lived in their own local homelands. The diversity of shtetl can become an inspiration and a role model for today’s efforts in building a modern multicultural society. The participants undertake a symbolic travel to the shtetls of Lublin region, in which they get to know their inhabitants, topography and various aspects of everyday life. Their guide during this trip is Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jewish writer connected to Lublin region and a Nobel Prize winner, in writings of whom one can find an unusual description of this region’s shtetls.

Target group: secondary schools
Workshop time: 90 mins
Place: The Grodzka Gate – 21, Grodzka Street

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Letters to Henio

On the basis of one family's - the Żytomirski family - from Lublin real story, the workshop's participants learn about the fate of Jewish people during the World War II. Young people, who take part in workshops, get to know the bicultural history of Lublin through some iconographic materials such as photographs and documents. The story of Henio – a Jewish boy born before the war in Lublin – enables participants to become familiar with the everyday life of this boy and his family in pre-war period, and leads them step by step through the consecutive stages of the Extermination. Workshop ends by writing together letters to Henio, who died probably at Majdanek camp. These activities have the task of learning tolerance and respect towards the other person regardless of his race or origins.

Target group: middle and secondary schools
Workshop time: 90 mins
Place: The Grodzka Gate – 21, Grodzka Street

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Lights in the Darkness - Righteous Among the Nations - portraits of Holocaust Survivors and those, who were saving in Lublin Region, based on the diaries and oral history documents

The workshop deals with the theme of the Righteous Among the Nations. During the workshop participants will get to know the story of saving a Jewish family during World War II in Chełm (Eastern Poland). The story will be shown from two perspectives, the Righteous and the Survivors. For this purpose there will be used oral history (fragments of relations by Adela Grzesiuk-Dąbska, the Righteous and the Survivor, Bencjon Drutin). This story would serve as an opportunity to discuss the difficulties of a memory of the Righteous and Survivors.

Target group: secondary schools
Workshop time: 90 mins
Place: The Grodzka Gate – 21, Grodzka Street

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Workshops in a foreign language (English, German):

reduced: 35 PLN / person
regular: 45 PLN / person

Workshops need to be booked in advance via electronic mail [email protected] or at the following number: /081/ 532 58 67