Opening Preview of The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódź Ghetto

 

“I’m laughing at the entire world – I, a poor Jewish girl from the ghetto – I, who don’t know what will happen to me tomorrow…I’m laughing at the entire world because I have a support: my Faith, because I believe!” – Rywka Lipszyc, Litzmannstadt GhettoIn

1945 a Soviet doctor found a school notebook in the liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. It was a diary written by teenager Rywka Lipszyc in the Łódź Ghetto – the testament of a young girl who lost her siblings and parents, but never lost hope.  More than seventy years later Rywka’s recounting of daily life in brutal conditions and coming of age amid unimaginable atrocity was brought to light. Through words given voice, contemporary interpretations, photographs, and historical and intimate artifacts, this exhibit bears witness to the personal dimensions of the Holocaust.

Join Jacob Nowakowski, Director of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków where the exhibit was first created and displayed, to hear about the creation and history of The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódź Ghetto.