Paweł Kulig has been acting as a caretaker of the New Jewish Cemetery on Bracka Street in Łódź for 8 years now. Since 2019, he has been the Chair of the Guardians of Memory Association whose aim is to preserve the cultural and historic heritage of Łódź Jewry. As the Guardians of Memory Association we engage in all sorts of activities to preserve the historic and cultural heritage of Polish Jews. We carry out all sorts of activities and initiatives, including tidying up the Jewish cemetery in Łódź where we are right now. This is the largest cemetery in Poland, and as such it requires a lot of attention. Aside from looking after the cemetery, we also carry out activities aiming at educating the youth. We remain in touch with the Landsmanschaft in Israel, and we develop activities which aim at building our relations with the descendants of Jews from Łódź. We look after the graves of their ancestors, but we also organize meetings with them and we make sure they are aware that the graves of their greatgrandparents, their heritage, is taken care of. Residents of Łódź participate in the actions of tidying up the cemetery. These are very diverse groups of people. We have seniors joining us as well as young people. Our children, school youth, and also people passionate about the city of Łódź. Łódź owed its prosperity and wealth to the Jewish residents. Here we can see the parents of Arthur Rubinstein who are buried at this cemetery. Here are the parents of Julian Tuwim. We have many more outstanding people who contributed to the success of this city. We feel responsible for the heritage they have left to us. And we do not treat it as an exclusively Jewish heritage, but rather as our joint heritage. If we discard our roots, we are left with no past. We have no past. We need to preserve the memory of our past, for people tend to forget very quickly. We ought to preserve it. That is precisely what we strive to do, not only through tidying up the cemetery, but also through educational actions which aim at sharing the stories of the past with a wide audience, but also to gain our audience’s respect. That is what I do with 
my children, teaching them respect and awareness of where they come from and where they are heading.