Seven non-Jewish Polish activists were recognized this year for their work in preserving, promoting, and caring for Jewish culture and heritage in Poland and promoting Jewish-Polish dialogue. They are the recipients of the 29th annual Preserving Memory Awards. Mazel tov — and thanks — to all!
This year’s recipients are:
Maciej Rymkiewicz – Warsaw
Agnieszka Dobkiewicz – Świdnica
Sława Przybylska – Otwock
Czesław Kostykiewicz – Zamość
Wanda Pieńkos – Pułtusk
Joanna Siodorowicz – Częstochowa
Magdalena Pulikowska – Kraśnik/Kraków
Presented at a ceremony Sunday at the Galicia Jewish Museum, during the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, the awards were established in 1998 by the American lawyer Michael Traison, to thank and pay tribute to non-Jewish Poles engaged in such activities.
Over the years some 300 or so people and organizations, mostly volunteers and mostly from small, far-flung towns, have been honored for activities ranging from cleaning up Jewish cemeteries to running Jewish museums to carrying out school projects on Jewish history and memory.
