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17.08.2015

Exhibition "Silent cry" in Doylestown (USA) – 5 August - 15 September 2015

The exhibition „Silent cry”, prepared by the Public Education Office of the Institute of National Remembrance will be on display throughout 5 August - 15 September 2015 at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown in the United States.

The main theme of the exhibition is the IPN search for the remains of victims of the Communist regime, held in the „L” quarters of the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw in 2012-2014. The author of the concept and all modern photographs is Piotr Życieński. The visual form has been designed by the artist Jolanta Czarska.

The exhibition has a form of a two-sided wall illustrating life and death as well as search and exhumation. A door to one of the rooms in the Mokotów prison, in which Polish patriots were murdered based on sentences from Communists show trials, is the center of the exhibition. Documentation of the exhumations is accompanied by extant archival family photos of a few victims. On the other side of the wall four victims out of about two hundred are presented. A list of the missing along with dates of their birth is featured in one of the bordering parts of the exhibition. On the opposite side there is a plan of secret burials with marked locations where the previously identified victims were found.

The exhibition at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown is possible owing to the cooperation of Public Education Office with Grzegorz Tymiński, founder of the website pamiec.us.

The exhibition is open until 15 September 2015 (National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, 654 Ferry Rd, Doylestown).

Admission free.


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