The event commemorating the 81st anniversary of the revolt was organised on the initiative of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in cooperation with the Treblinka Museum. German Nazi extermination and labour camp (1941-1944).

Official ceremonies began at noon at the monument to the Victims of the Extermination Camp, which is located on the grounds of the museum. They were followed by the presentation of the outdoor exhibition "Artistic World Lost. In tribute to the artists murdered in the Treblinka Death Camp".

- Willenberg was one of about two hundred Jews who managed to get out of the camp that day. Out of those guys, less than 100 lived to see the end of the war. Treblinka is a great lesson on the power of evil, but also a parable of human dignity and steadfastness. Such a parable was carried by the prisoners during the revolt in that hell on earth. Samuel Willenberg carried it throughout his life, not only as an indefatigable youth educator and artist, but also as a soldier of the 1939 Polish campaign, a Warsaw insurgent, decorated with the Order of Virtuti Militari, the Cross of Merit with Swords and the Order of Polonia Restituta, among others, said Deputy President of the IPN Prof. Karol Polejowski. He also mentioned that since 2020, the IPN has been taking care of the collection of 15 sculptures by Samuel Willenberg, which have been successfully presented in more than a dozen locations, as well as conducting a number of workshops for young people based on them.

- "A nation that loses its memory, also loses its conscience", a Polish poet, Zbigniew Herbert once said. It is the mission and also the honour of the Institute of National Remembrance to carry this memory through generations. Honour and glory to the heroic Jewish insurgents of Treblinka. Eternal memory to all the victims of German genocide committed during the Second World War. Remembrance is key, he pointed out.

Prof. Polejowski recalled that last year, on the 80th anniversary of the revolt, the sculptures in a unique, open-air display stood against the wall of the forest at Treblinka. This year, however, a board version of the exhibition has been developed so that it can appear in smaller centres, schools and community centres, bringing the truth about the Holocaust and shaping the sensitivity of young people. It is intended that the board version of the exhibition will be accompanied by selected artefacts – sculptures from Samuel Willenberg's legacy.

This autumn, such an exemplary installation will be presented at the newly opened Lech Kaczyński IPN Central History Point at Marszałkowska Street in Warsaw. The exhibition will be accompanied by educational workshops.

The ceremonies were attended by the Director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute Michał Trębacz, Ph.D., Holocaust survivor and widow of Samuel Willenberg, the longest surviving participant of the Treblinka revolt, Ada Krystyna Willenberg, Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Dera, Deputy Speaker of the Senate Maciej Żywno, Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic Martin Baxa and Director of the IPN International Cooperation Office Agnieszka Jędrzak.