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Publication Date:
2025-12-27

Section: Holocaust commemorations

Pieces of gravestones. About the exhibition, “1945: Not the End, Not the Beginning” at the POLIN Museum

Sara Herczyńska

s.herczynska@uw.edu.pl

PhD, cultural studies scholar, works at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw in the Department of Anthropology of Language. Member of the Holocaust Memory Research Team, collaborates with the Social Arts Team. Interested in research on memory, museums, and Polish contemporary art. She has published in Teksty Drugie, Widok, Czas Kultury, Konteksty, Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, Przegląd Humanistyczny, Prace Etnograficzne, and Almanach Antropologiczny, among others.

ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4840-5819

Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 21 (2025), Pages: 375-381

Submission Date: 2025-07-28

Publication Date: 2025-12-27

DOI logo https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.1130

Abstract

In her article, the author discusses the temporary exhibition, “1945: Not the End, Not the Beginning,” which was presented at the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews from March 7 to September 15, 2025. The exhibition was curated by Zuzanna Schnepf-Kołacz, Zuzanna Benesz-Goldfinger, and Justyna Majewska and was conceived by Anna Bikont and Kamil Kijek. The author analyzes the exhibition’s narrative and relates it to Bikont's book, Not the End, Not the Beginning. The Postwar Choices of Polish Jews

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Herczyńska, S. (2025). Pieces of gravestones. About the exhibition, “1945: Not the End, Not the Beginning” at the POLIN Museum. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (21), 375–381. https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.1130

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                            View No. 21 (2025)

No. 21 (2025)

ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2025-12-27

Dział: Holocaust commemorations