back...A meeting with a witness to history, Ms Barbara Paciorkiewicz

Dear Teachers, Dear Students,

We would like to invite you to a meeting with an exceptional witness to history - Ms Barbara Paciorkiewicz, whose story will stay in our hearts for a long time.

Bärbel from a German family in the town of Lemgo in Germany is in fact four-year-old Basia, a Polish girl who was to be Germanised along with 200,000 other victims - Polish children taken away during the Second World War. What was her fate? How did she get back to Poland? What did she find here and how did she manage to put her life back together? Who does she feel she is? A Pole or a German?

The meeting will take place on the 79th anniversary of the end of the German occupation in Łódź, on Friday 19 January 2024 at 1 pm at the Museum of Polish Children – Victims of Totalitarianism at ul. Piotrkowska 90.

Event programme:
13.00 - 13.20  Greeting the participants, introducing the issue of Germanization of Polish children during World War II.

13.20 – 14.30  A meeting with a witness to history, Ms Barbara Paciorkiewicz:
- a story about war and the search for one's own identity,
- questions from the participants and a discussion on the theft of Polish children during World War II. 

Registration:

Michał Hankiewicz, Head of the Museum’s Education Department

mobile phone: +48 797 595 091 

e-mail: mhankiewicz@muzeumdziecipolskich.pl

Places are limited - participation is on a first-come, first-served basis.