Galicia Jewish Museum
The Galicia Jewish Museum, Żydowskie Muzeum Galicja, anchors your walk in the Kazimierz Jewish quarter through one steady purpose: preserving memory. It was established in April 2004, founded by the British photojournalist Chris Schwarz, whose father came from Lwów, and created in cooperation with Professor Jonathan Webber of UNESCO. From the start, the museum links local remnants—synagogues, cemeteries, and other traces still visible across western Galicia—to the wider history of the Holocaust in Poland. Today, its main exhibition, Traces of Memory, grew out of a twelve-year collaboration and is organized into five sections, ranging from “Jewish Life in Ruins” to “The Holocaust: Sites of Massacre and Destruction.” The exhibition also includes a portion dedicated to Auschwitz concentration camp, and in 2008 the museum collaborated with the Auschwitz Jewish Center on *Polish Heroes*, focusing on the Polish Righteous Among the Nations—a …
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