INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Warsaw, 11-12 June 2015
Memory in Poland of the rescuers and the rescued from the Holocaust.
On the 30th anniversary of granting the title of the Righteous Among The Nations to Sugihara Chiune, Japanese Consul in Lithuania
Venue:
Schuman Hallof Auditorium Maximum,
Wóycickiego Street1/3,
CardinalStefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw
The conference is organized under the auspices
of
the Embassy of Japan in Poland
The conference has received the patronage of:
10 JUNE 2015
16:30- 18:00 Visit in Polin Museum in Warsaw (to be confirmed)
11 JUNE 2015
9:00 Registration
9:30 Welcome
9:50 – 11:00Opening Address:
Representative of the Embassy of Japan in Poland
Representative of the Embassy of Israel in Poland (to be confirmed)
Olga Barbasiewicz (Warsaw, Poland), Aleksandra Hadzelek (Sydney, Australia), In Search of Sugihara in Poland
11:00-13:05 [SESSION 1]Rescuing Jews in Japan and Asia
Rotem Kowner (Haifa, Israel), Reflections on the Righteous Among The Nations: Sugihara Chiune as a Case Study
Chiharu Inaba (Nagoya, Japan), Japanese rescuers other than Sugihara in Vladivostok and in Kobe
Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska (Warsaw, Poland), The rescued in Japan. The role of Polish Ambassador Tadeusz Romer
Mikhail Mitsel (New York, USA),JDC’s Major Rescue Operations During WWII
Teruji Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Japanese government and military leaders measures toward Jews
13:05-14:00 Lunch break
14:00 -15:40[SESSION 2]Jews in Asia
Joanna Guzik (Cracow, Poland), Japan’s Policy toward Jews
Andrew Jakubowicz (Sydney, Australia) Suspended between… : the Polish Jewish community of Shanghai 1941-1946
Barbara Abraham (Oxford, UK/Shanghai, China), Jewish literary contribution to the cultural life of Polish community in Shanghai. Involvement of Stefan Gołąb and A. Swislocki in publication of Echo Szanghajskie and “Wiadomosci” – the special supplement for the Polish refugees in China
Emilia Rydel (Poznan, Poland), The identitydiscourse in "Zachráněnej v šanghajském ghettu". AnkaVoticka’s testimony
18:00 - 20:00Memories and recollections: personal testimonies of Sugihara survivors and their descendants (venue to be confimed)
Stefans Golab’s poetry from Japan and Shanghai
Marcel Weyland’s pre-recorded reading of a chapter of his unpublished memoir
Meeting with Nina Admoni (nee Wertans) who will present her personal recollections of the journey as a child
Second generations’ personal testimonies: Ms. Admoni, Andrew Jakubowicz, Erica Mitsidis (nee Hechtropf)
12 JUNE 2015
9:00-10:15 [SESSION 3]Memory and commemorations of Sugihara and Zwartendijk in Poland and Lithuania
Linas Venclauskas (Kaunas, Lithuania), Process of memorialization of Ch. Sugihara and J. Zwartendijk in Lithuania(working title)
Simonas Strelcovas (Šiauliai, Lithuania), Footprints of Sugihara and Zwartendijk in Lithuanian historiography. The perspectives for future research
Aleksandra Hadzelek (Sydney, Australia), Silence or amnesia: the non-memory of Sugihara in Poland
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:00 [SESSION 4]The Righteous Among the Nations: Contemporary dilemmasand problems associated with the award.
Miriam David (Tel Aviv, Israel), The righteous among the nations in the Jewish Tradition
Jan Grosfeld (Warsaw, Poland),Instrumentalisation of the memory. The case of the <Righteous Among The Nations>
Jakub Greloff (Warsaw, Poland), Recent Issues in Polish Historiography of the Shoah, commemoration, public and scientific discourse
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:15 [SESSION 5] The perspective of the rescued: personal testimonies of people saved by The Righteous, and their descendants
Iryna Radchenko (Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine), The Righteous Among the Nations: the problem of rescue in saviors` representations
Leora Tec (Tel Aviv, Israel), Krysia Bloch, Hela Bawnik, Nechama Tec - the labels of victim, survivor and rescuer
Adam Raszewski (Warsaw, Poland), Destroyed innocence. The experience of children of the Holocaust in terms of Bogdan Wojdowski and Joanna Iwaszkiewicz
14:15-14:45 Coffee Break
15:00 -16:15 [SESSION 6]The rescuers and the rescued from the Holocaust. Activities of Polish Institutions
Anna Wencel, Kamila Czerkawska (Cracow, Poland), Working with Survivors and Witnesses – Educators’ Perspective
Tomasz Sudoł (Warsaw, Poland), Komitet dla Upamiętnienia Polaków Ratujących Żydów (Committee for the Commemoration of Poles who Rescued Jews during the Holocaust) and its collecting data activity of testimonies of Poles that rescued Jews in years 1939-1945.
Klara Jackl (Warsaw. Poland), Project ”The Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History” by the Polin Museum
16:30 Screening of Ocaleni (Rescued), the documentary film by Joanna Król and Karolina Dzięciołowska (English Subtitles) with the introduction by Joanna Król and followed by a Questions & Answers session
During the conference there will be held an exhibition of the Galicia Museum
“Wszystkie drogi…” – historie Żydów ocalonych z Zagłady
["All the ways..." - stories of Jewish Holocaust survivors]