Jewish heritage in Warsaw. International clean-up of the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa in Warsaw.

Poland
2017, 2018
clean-up
cemetery, Jewish, jewish cemetery, Okopowa, Powązki

o projekcie

Jewish Heritage in Warsaw is a cyclical international volunteer project run at the Jewish Cemetery on Okopowa in Warsaw. The initiative brings together people from all over the world. The participating volunteers contribute not only by cleaning the site of the historic necropolis. The event involves also a series of meetings on Jewish history and culture.

Each year, people of different nationalities and ages come to Warsaw to join forces by making a contribution to the preservation of the Jewish cemetery and tradition, driven by a shared desire to learn about the setting and the context in which the necropolis located in the capital of Poland is set. Participation in the event is an excellent opportunity to rediscover this important part of Warsaw as well as to meet new like-minded people and do something useful together.

2018

The next edition of the programme took place on 11-30 July 2018. Again, it brought together a group of several dozen people from across the whole world. One World Association from Poznań helped in organising their arrival in Poland. The volunteers were provided with the necessary equipment and gloves. They were cleaning up the necropolis from Monday to Friday. After each day of work, they were treated to a warm meal and given an opportunity to take part in interesting meetings on Jewish history and culture.

We’d like to thank the following institutions who joined the project:

– the Jewish Community in Warsaw (the Nożyk Synagogue, the Ec Chaim Synagogue, the Bródno Jewish Cemetary, the Wola Jewish Cemetery)
– POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
– the Białołęka Cultural Centre – 3 Pokoje z Kuchnią
– the National Museum in Warsaw
– the  Warsaw Uprising Museum
– Neon Museum
– Station Warsaw
– the Jewish Historical Institute
– the Fryderyk Chopin Museum

The project was run in English.
contact e-mail address: wolontariat@dziedzictwo.org

 

2017

The 2017 edition of the Jewish Heritage in Warsaw took place on 17-23 August.

The agenda of the event was as follows:

17.08 (Thursday)
10.00-16.00 – clean-up of the Jewish Cemetery
18:30 – a presentation entitled “Jewish culture on the streets of contemporary Warsaw”, guest speaker: Julia Maria Koszewska, member of the European Association for Jewish Studies, doctoral student at the University of Warsaw, specialising in policy of remembrance with a special focus on the issue of Jewish matters in Poland, a wikipedian and co-organiser of the “Jewish Motifs” International Film Festival.
Venue: Cafe Żytnia at the Caritas centre, Żytnia 1A
The lecture will be followed by a discussion.

18.08 (Friday)
9.00-13.00 – clean-up of the Jewish Cemetery
19:00 – a presentation entitled “Forms of protection of Polish cultural heritage abroad”, guest speaker: Krzysztof Berg from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s Department of Cultural Heritage Abroad and Wartime Losses, passionate about Ukraine, where he spent 9 months in 2016, implementing EU projects dealing with decentralisation, education, and history.
venue: Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej, Freta 20/24A (entrance behind the Dominican monastery, from the annexe to the old apartment houses on Freta)
The lecture will be followed by a discussion.

20.08 (Sunday)
10.00-16.00 – clean-up of the Jewish Cemetery together with students from the Jakub Kolas Liceum of Humanity from Belarus

21.08 (Monday)
10.00-16.00 – clean-up of the Jewish Cemetery
18:00 – a football game

venue: Gimnazjum nr 47, Grenady 16

22.08 (Tuesday)
10.00-16.00 – clean-up of the Jewish Cemetery together with students from the Jakub Kolas Liceum of Humanity from Belarus
18:30 – a meeting with a rabbi in the Nożyk Synagogue on Twarda 6
21:00 – a discussion with participant of the project entitled “Cultural heritage: opportunities, challenges, and threats in contemporary Europe”
venue: Gimnazjum nr 47, Grenady 16

23.08 (Wednesday)
10.00-16.00 – clean-up of the Jewish Cemetery

The project was run in English.
contact e-mail address: wolontariat@dziedzictwo.org
the cemetery clean-up team was supervised by: Marek Suchorski, tel. no. 570 362 568

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