Muranów. A District that Grew Beyond the Rubble
From the center of Jewish life before World War Two - at the time when Warsaw was home to the largest Jewish diaspora in Europe - to a new Modernist, Socialist housing estate on the remains of pre-war and post-war Warsaw. Stefan Ingvarsson in conversation with Beata Chomątowska about memory, pre-war and post-war inhabitants, buildings, places, and the temporary exhibition "Here is Muranów" at POLIN Museum in Warsaw, Poland.
- The Zoom webinar takes place, Wednesday 21 April, 2021 from 6:30PM to 8:00PM CET (7:30PM IDT/12:30PM EDT/9:30AM PDT).
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- This event is in memory of those who arose in the Warsaw ghetto uprising
- Between 19th April-16thMay 1943, and the Jewish inhabitants of Warsaw.
About the speakers:
Stefan Ingvarsson, Swedish cultural journalist and literary translator from Polish. Has recently returned to Stockholm after working as cultural counsellor at the Embassy of Sweden in Moscow (2005-2020). Currently writing for the daily newspaper Expressen and working for the Swedish PEN club with a project linked to Belarus. He is also in the process of writing a book on deportations of foreign nationals to Soviet camps and special settlements in the 1940s.
Beata Chomątowska: co-author of the scenario of the Here is Muranów exhibition, writer, journalist and chairwoman of the Stacja Muranów Association. She is the author of Stacja Muranów (2012), a book on the postwar history of Muranów as the residential estate–monument. She published a biography of architects Bohdan Lachert and Józef Szanajca, and lately a novel titled Andreowia. Beata also guides architectural tours of Muranów.
Co-organizers: Vänföreningen för Museet för de polska judarnas historia POLIN, Judiska församlingen and Stockholm, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw
