09.11.2006 (Thursday)
WHITE STORK SYNAGOGUE (Synagoga Pod Białym Bocianem / ul.Włodkowica 7)
17:30 - “Voices from Theresienstadt”
Tickets: 25/10PLN
A play by Ellen Foyn Bruun and Bente Kahan. The play includes the original lyrics and cabaret written in the ghetto.
19:00 - “Gross Rosen”
The opening of an exhibition. Free entrance.
20:00 - Kristallnacht 2006
March to the commemoration place at the former New Synagogue in Wrocław, which was destroyed on the Kristallnacht, 1938. Free admissions.

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10.11.2006 (Friday) – 11:30
AMERICAN CORNER (Dolnośląska Public Library, Rynek 58)
Free admission
A lecture by Dr. Camelia Michaela Cmeciu (University of Bacău, Romania)
“On a bleak rainy day in November 2002, when George W. Bush visited Romania, a rainbow appeared in the sky, thus metaphorically ’sealing’ Romania’s membership into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which took place later in May 2004. Two years have passed since then and the Romanian society has been facing two major problems: on the one hand, a pledge of honor to America, despite the unfavorable polls concerning our presence in Iraq, on the other hand, the admission to the EU, despite the pervasive problem of corruption. These two issues can be linked to some ‘fundamental values’ (Alina Mungiu-Pippidi) about our perception of the Self and the Other, which are to be found in the sociological interpretations of two Romanian traditional ballads Mioriţa and Mason Manole…”

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07.11.2006 (Tuesday) – 19:00
SALVADOR (pl. Solny 16, entrance from ul. Szajnochy)
Free admissions
Mayan Productions organizes a screening of local independent films. In programme are:
“Memorie“/ “When Nobody’s Looking (Kiedy nikt nie patrzy)” / “Next to Each Other (Obok siebie)” - by Joanna Strong
“Pilgrimage (Pielgrzymka)” - by Filip Rudnicki
“Delivery room (Porodowka)” - by Michal Paszczyk

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“Sing with us in Yiddish”
Voja and her friends with the group Chudoba
05.11.2006 (Sunday) – 16:00
SYNAGOGUE “UNDER A WHITE STORK” (Synagoga Pod Białym Bocianem / ul.Włodkowica 7)
Tickets: 20/10PLN

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