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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign 2022

Irena Santor z papierowym żonkilem w Muzeum POLIN.

Muzeum POLIN. Aktorka Aleksandra Popławska trzyma przy piersi papierowy żonkil - symbol akcji.

Muzeum POLIN. Aktorka Eliza Rycembel - ambasadorka akcji Żonkile - w czerni. Do bluzki ma przypięty papierowy żonkil.

Muzeum POLIN. Krzysztof Gonciarz ubrany na czarno. Do marynarki ma przypięty papierowy żonkil.

Muzeum POLIN. Ambasador Andrzej Piaseczny trzyma papierowy żonkil - symbol akcji.

Muzeum POLIN. Aktor Janusz Gajos - ambasador akcji Żonkile - w czerni. W dłoni trzyma papierowy żonkil.

Muzeum POLIN. Troje wolontariuszy akcji Żonkile.

Kilku żołnierzy stoi w rzędzie, wszyscy trzymają wieńce.

Zygmunt Stępiński i Piotr Wiślicki składają żonkile pod Pomnikiem Bohaterów Getta. Między nimi stoi mała dziewczynka.

Akcja Żonkile 2022. Ambasador Ukrainy i Izraela w asyście żołnierzy składają wieńce pod Pomnikiem Bohaterów Getta.

Marian Turski wyciąga dłoń ku twarzy Krystyny Budnickiej. Oboje uśmiechają się do siebie.

19 kwietnia 2022. Morze kwiatów pod Pomnikiem Bohaterów Getta w Warszawie.

Warszawiacy składają kwiaty pod Pomnikiem Bohaterów Getta, 19 kwietnia 2022 r.

Wolontariuszki rozdają papierowe żonkile na ulicach Warszawy.

Wolontariusz akcji Żonkile 2022 daje kobiecie papierowy żonkil.

Wolontariusze rozdają papierowe żonkile przy stacji metra Centrum.

Dwie wolontariuszki rozdają papierowe żonkile na ulicach Warszawy.

Grafika Akcji Żonkile. Żółty Żonkil, obok i pod spodem czarne napisy: 19.04.1943, powstanie w getcie warszawskim, Łączy nas pamięć

We encourage you to participate in the 10th anniversary edition of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising social-educational campaign. Due to the pandemic, it is organized both on site and online for the third time in a row. The leading motif of campaign is love.

This year our campaign support new ambassadors: Irena Santor, Krzysztof Gonciarz, Eliza Rycembel, Janusz Gajos, Andrzej Piaseczny, Aleksandra Popławska and our wonderful volunteers – Dariusz, Joanna and Weronika.

Love as the leading motif of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising campaign

Marek Edelman, one of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commanders, wrote in his book titled "And There Was Love in the Ghetto": "Why nobody ever asks me about love in the ghetto? Why nobody is interested in that?”. During this edition of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign, we will ponder not only on the question posed by Edelman, but also on the meaning and significance of love in the Warsaw ghetto. We will talk about its various manifestations: parents’ love towards their children, love for friends or for an idea and, finally, romantic love.

We will also focus on emotional states and attitudes - utterly timeless and universal - which are very closely related to love: empathy, sensitivity in the face of a suffering of others, devotion to those in need. We will be guided by the words of Marek Edelman: "Hatred is easy. Love requires effort and sacrifice."

This year’s edition of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising campaign is taking place at a time when people are yet again being killed in Eastern Europe, including women and children. We want the participation in the campaign - run with love as its leading motif — to be a manifestation of sorts of our opposition to war, and to any form of violence. With Marian Turski’s words in mind — "Auschwitz did not fall from the sky" - we wish to stand united with those who are fighting for their country, for the freedom and dignity of their loved ones.

That is why the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising campaign accompanying program will revolve around precisely that: love. On 19 April, the first performance (SOLD OUT) of a monodrama titled "Mum Always Comes Back" based on a text by Agata Tuszyńska will be staged, with two more performances on 20 and 21 April (SOLD OUT).

We also developed a set of educational materials for all age groups of children and youth. The materials make it easy to join in the commemoration on 19 April. Their entire content is accessible to persons with disabilities.

How to join the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising campaign? / How does one get a paper daffodil? >>

This year, we plan to distribute 368,000 paper flowers, thus pointing to the number of Jews residing in Warsaw prior to the outbreak of World War Two. On 19 April, over 1,000 volunteers will distribute paper daffodils — a symbol of the memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising heroes — in the streets of Warsaw. You will meet them all across Warsaw—in some locations from 8AM, in others from 10AM. Below is the list of all the daffodils campaign centres:

8AM-10AM: Dworzec Wileński, Młociny, plac Wilsona metro stations;
8AM-10AM, 4PM-6PM: Dworzec Wileński, Centrum, Rondo Daszyńskiego, Rondo ONZ, Świętokrzyska and Wilanowska metro stations;
10AM-2PM: KADR Culture Club, "Dwa Jelonki" Local Activities Centre, The Museum of Warsaw Wola;
10AM-2PM, 3PM-7PM: POLIN Museum, Nowolipie Centre for Cross-generational Activities, History Meeting House, JCC, Museum of Polish History, Museum of Warsaw Praga, Museum of Warsaw, PROM of Culture Saska Kępa, Teatr Ochoty theatre, Bielany Municipal Office, Ursynów Municipal Office, Żoliborz Municipal Office.

Just like last year, you will be able to collect daffodils from the so-called commemorative pillars located in the five following spots:

Aleja Niepodległości/SGH;
Marszałkowska/Królewska/Rysia;
plac Zawiszy/Grójecka – venue D;
Rondo Radosława/C.H. Arkadia;
Wołoska/Domaniewska.

Join the campaign, no matter where you live!

How to make your own daffodil? It is enough to download a template from our website, print it and fold it (video instruction might help).
You will find set of stickers with daffodils in the following magazines: "Tygodnik Powszechny" (13 April), "Newsweek" (11 April).
You can also share a special anniversary graphic which we will publish on 19 April on POLIN Museum profiles in the social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. Remember about the hashtags: #RememberingTogether, #WarsawGhettoUprisingCampaign, #polinmuseum.
Unfortunately, due to technical reasons the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising campaign overlay is not available this year on Facebook. We encourage you to post your own photos.
You can also print a special anniversary graphic and display it in a place where it can easily be seen, e.g. attach it to a window pane. The graphic is available as PDF to download in four language versions – Polish, English, Spanish and Ukrainian.
Watch films and debates which we have prepared for you as part of the program accompanying this year’s edition of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign, i.a.: Was There Love in the Ghetto? by Franek Bojańczyk or a conversation about Alina Margolis-Edelman.

Mural next to the entrance to the Centrum metro station

Between 11 and 24 April, a mural painted next to the entrance to the Centrum metro station will commemorate people whose life stories are somehow connected with this year’s campaign’s leading motif: Alina Margolis-Edelman, Anna Braude-Heller, Stefania Wilczyńska, Pola Lifszyc, Marysia Ajzensztadt, Tsivia Lubetkin and Yitzhak Zuckerman, Irena Sendler and Adam Celnikier, Gela Seksztajn and Izrael Lichtensztajn, Stanisław Chmielewski and Władysław Bergman.

We encourage you to publish photos of the daffodils and our campaign poster on your social media pages. Please remember to add hashtags: #WarsawGhettoUprising, #POLINMuseum, #RememberingTogether, and to tag @polinmuseum profile.

This year support us Embassy of Poland in Buenos Aires, Polish Institute Tel Aviv, The Marek Edelman Dialogue Center in Łódź.

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