The mobile open-air exhibition “There are plenty of them nowhere. Recalling the memory of Polish Jews in the city space” has started its tour again. In the coming weeks it will be presented in Białystok, Ełk, Olsztyn, Tricity, Bydgoszcz and Toruń. According to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, it will inform the viewers about selected threads of the history of Polish Jews using over 30 murals from various places in Poland.

The exhibition is presenting selected topics from the history of Polish Jews, introducing Polish-Jewish relations and ways of restoring the memory of former neighbours by city activists and local associations.

In over a dozen thematic sections, visitors will learn about the contribution of Polish Jews to culture and economy, Jewish life in Poland over the centuries, as well as Polish Righteous People Among the Nations.

The exhibitions in individual cities will be accompanied by a rich program of educational and cultural activities, created in cooperation with local partners: Białystok Cultural Center / Ludwik Zamenhof’s Center, Historical Museum in Ełk, Municipal Cultural Center in Olsztyn, Park of Culture in Bydgoszcz /Rother’s Mills, District Museum in Toruń.

Guests will be able to go for a walk in the footsteps of local Jewish history, and see murals on Jewish themes that can be found in each of the cities hosting the exhibition.

The exhibition “There are plenty of them nowhere” was created in 2017 in cooperation with the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and the Norwegian Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Minorities in Oslo. In 2019, it was presented at the Tolerance Festival in Zagreb. In 2021, the exhibition could be seen for the first time in five Polish cities: Lublin, Warsaw, Kraków, Łódź and Rzeszów.

Adrian Andrzejewski