On-Site Exhibition Opening: “The Girl in The Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódz Ghetto”
Opening May 18 at Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódz Ghetto explores a young girl’s fight for survival and the search for what happened to her after the Holocaust.
Discovered in the ashes of a destroyed crematorium at Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, the diary of 14-year-old Rywka Lipszyc documented her life in the Łódz ghetto between October 1943 and April 1944. Rywka’s diary paints a portrait of a young girl who, despite losing her siblings and parents, never lost her hope or her faith.
More than 60 years after its discovery, the diary traveled to the United States, where it was translated into English, supplemented with commentaries, and published. The exhibition’s installation at Illinois Holocaust Museum will be in both English and Polish for the first time since its debut at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Poland.
Join us for the exhibition’s opening program featuring Jakub Nowakowski, curator of the exhibition and Director of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków, Poland. Nowakowski’s presentation will discuss the Museum’s work, the creation of and unique features of the exhibition, and the incredible discovery that inspired it.
Reservations are required.
Live open captioning will be available.
An exhibition at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in cooperation with the Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków, Poland.
Illinois Holocaust Museum’s presentation of The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Łódz Ghetto is made possible with generous support from:
Additional Funders
Mark and Lisa Pinsky
Golder Family Foundation
Community partners: Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago; Chicago Jewish Historical Society; Dziennik Związkowy – Polish Daily News; Hebrew Theological College, a member of Touro University; Midwest Center for Jewish Learning; National Council of Jewish Women Chicago North Shore; NILI (at Yeshiva University Torah Mitzion Kollel of Chicago); Yeshiva University Torah Mitzion Kollel of Chicago; Blitstein Institute for Women