RSVP Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 6-8pm ET
New York City Bar Association
42 West 44th Street
New York, NY

This project is recommended by the Polish Cultural Institute New York.

Speaker: Monika Krawczyk, Director of Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw
Moderator: Diane Fener, Chair, Senior Lawyers Committee

Description
Monika Krawczyk, lawyer and international speaker, will discuss The Ringelblum Archive, a collection of thousands of handwritten messages from people who knew they were about to die. Generally recognized as the most important personal testimony of World War II, these crumbling scraps of paper were originally hidden in milk cans and buried inside the Warsaw ghetto. Discovered and carefully excavated from the rubble of war in 1946 – 1950, they were included on UNESCO’s Memory of the World list in 1999, and were published as a 38-volume set of books in 2017. They are in the process of being translated into English now. 

Krawczyk was appointed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage to serve as custodian of this legacy, which is on permanent exhibit in Warsaw. Her talk will provide an overview of the field by showing how a group of personal writings, when taken as a whole, enrich history.

Program Fee: Free for Members and Non-Lawyers | $15 Non-Members
Non-Lawyers please call Customer Relations at 212-382-6663 to register. 

Sponsoring Committee
Senior Lawyers, Diane Fener and Gertrude Pfaffenbach, Co-Chairs

Co-Sponsoring Committee
Civil Rights, Kathleen Rubenstein & Kevin Eli Jason, Co-Chairs 
Council on International Affairs, Mark A. Meyer, Chair 
International Human Rights, Ramya Jawahar Kudekallu, Chair
Rule of Law Task Force, Marcy Kahn, Chair 

Lead image: Monika Krawczyk. Source: Jewish Historical Institute.