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‘The artist’s works in the years 1943–1944, between the July 1942 “Gross Aktion” (Great Action or Operation, namely the deportation and mass murder of Jews from the Jewish quarter), the Ghetto Uprising (April 1943) and the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising (August 1st 1944) became one of the most important Polish artistic documents recording the German occupation – especially the Holocaust,’ writes Dr. Piotr Rypson, curator of the temporary exhibition “Dancers 1944. Mieczysław Wejman”.

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On 11th November 2021, an anti-Semitic demonstration took place in Kalisz, during which the text of the Kalisz Statute, a document from the 13th century granting civil rights to Jews, was publicly burnt, in order to intice hatred against Jews. The director of the Jewish Historical Institute, Monika Krawczyk, submitted an official notification of a suspected cirme to the prosecutor's office.