The The Transformative Power of Cultural Heritage: The Avant-garde of the Interwar Period at the Exhibitions of the Museum of Art in Łódź towards the Conservative Turn by Piotr Słodkowski

“…Focusing on the expositions at the Muzeum Sztuki [Museum of Art] in Łódź, in particular two displays: Pole, Jew, Artist… and Correspondences, the author asks a question: What methodological assumptions were those expositions based on and how did they transcend the traditional discourse of the Polish history of art? …”
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Building through the flames: Polish-Jewish architects and their networks, 1937–1945 by Emily Roche

“…From the mid-1930s, however, intensifying antisemitism and far-right political forces pressured architectural networks to exclude Jews from professional unions. The start of the Second World War and the German occupation in 1939 strained professional architectural networks but led to the formation of underground workshops, cooperatives, and other groups, whose connections extended from Warsaw through the camps and ghettos of occupied Poland. …”
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Americanizations of Holocaust Memory and Museum Aesthetic Experience by Karolina Krasuska

“…The article interprets an emblematic segment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition, The Tower of Faces and the installation on the 1941-2 pogroms in Nazi-occupied Poland in the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews to compare the aesthetic experience of these examples of Holocaust memorialization. …”
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