Exhibit: "Polish Heroes: Those Who Saved Jews" - Nazareth College

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Exhibit: "Polish Heroes: Those Who Saved Jews"

"Polish Heroes: Those Who Rescued Jews"

Polish Heritage Society of Rochester, and the Jewish Federation of Rochester bring you the exhibit; Polish Heroes: Those who Rescued Jews. The exhibit will be on display at the Shults Center Forum at Nazareth College until February 19, 2012.

The traveling exhibit "Polish Heroes: Those Who Rescued Jews" is a unique photographic exhibition created as a tribute to the more than 6,000 individuals in Poland who have been recognized for sheltering Jewish people during WWII. Their stories, written in English and in Polish accompany their photographic portraits.

The exhibition focuses on 21 such recipients, who all live in the Kraków region today. Their faces and stories are given in honor of all those, living and dead, who could not be included in one exhibition. The exhibition features photographs by the late photographer Chris Schwarz.

A lecture with Holocaust expert Michael Dobkowski, professor of religious studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will take place on Wednesday, February 8 at 6 p.m. in the Shults Center Forum on campus. The exhibit is free and open to the public seven days a week from 8 a.m. to midnight starting January 23 – February 19, 2012.

The exhibit is co-curated by the Auschwitz Jewish Center, the Galicia Jewish Museum, the Polish Falcons and the Polish/American/Jewish Alliance for Youth Action.