GEOP Newsletter June 2025
18 06 2025
Sign up for the next Taube Talk with POLIN Museum
Join us for an insightful Taube Talk on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at 2:00PM EST/8:00 CET as we delve into “1945: Not the End, Not the Beginning.”
This special event features Kamil Kijek, one of the exhibition’s co-authors, who will moderate a conversation with Dr. Frankee Lyons, Dr. Krzysztof Persak, and Professor Anna Sommer Schneider.
The Taube Center for Jewish Life & Learning, the POLIN Museum, and the Global Education Outreach Program (GEOP) are honored to host this discussion. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain deeper insights into the complexities of Jewish life in Poland immediately following World War II.
The JDC Archives and POLIN Museum teamed up to present an online minicourse.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) played a pivotal role in supporting Jewish communities in Poland, from its inception in 1914 through the early post-war years. Its relief efforts were crucial during the First World War, the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and in the challenging period immediately after.
The JDC Archives and the POLIN Museum put together a four-part online mini-course exploring the JDC’s activities in Polish territories from 1914 to 1950. This course thoughtfully accompanies POLIN Museum’s new temporary exhibition, “1945. Not the End, Not the Beginning,” which focuses on the Jewish experience in postwar Poland.
Hundreds of interested learners joined us for this event! Those who registered have access to all 4 webinars.
We are delighted to be wrapping up our impactful international conference “Not the End, Not the Beginning. Reconstructing Jewish Life in Poland and Central Europe after the Second World War.”
This significant event has explored the remarkable resilience of Jewish survivors in Poland who, despite the profound catastrophe of the Holocaust, managed to rebuild a diverse network of social, political, cultural, religious, and economic institutions. The conference has offered invaluable insights into various aspects of revived Jewish life in Poland, drawing comparisons with developments in other countries of the region during 1945–1955.
Presentations covered a wide range of topics, including the functioning of Jewish communities, migration patterns, transnationalism, relations with Jewish communities outside Poland, the development of Jewish culture, literature, and press, as well as the postwar commemoration of Holocaust victims and the administration of justice to perpetrators. A highlight of the conference was a roundtable discussion on the potential of oral history sources in research on contemporary history.
This conference, alongside the exhibition “1945: Not the End, Not the Beginning” at the POLIN Museum, has powerfully marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. If you missed the conference, don’t worry. Recordings will be available soon. We extend our sincere thanks to all speakers, participants, and attendees for making this conference a success!