As representatives of Poland’s Jewish community and organizations dedicated to the history and culture of Polish Jews, and as members of the Community Council which advises the Director of POLIN Museum, we appeal to the Museum’s cofounders to promptly enter into a dialogue which will lead to the appointment of POLIN Museum’s director. We cannot accept the fact that a cultural institution that is so important to us remains in a limbo, with its future uncertain.
The founding agreement signed in 2005 by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, City of Warsaw, and Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland, and the Statute of POLIN Museum stipulate that the appointment of the director of POLIN Museum requires consensus of the three founders. To ignore this regulation is to threaten the very foundation of POLIN Museum’s operation. Protracting the deadlock is sure to result in the Museum losing its credibility in the eyes of visitors, donors, and world opinion.
We call urgently for honoring mutual obligations.
| Sebastian Rejak | – AJC Central Europe |
| Aleksandra Leliwa-Kopystyńska | – Association of Children of the Holocaust |
| Piotr Wiślicki | – Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland |
| Marian Kalwary | – Association of Jewish War Veterans and Victims of World War Two |
| Michael Schudrich | – Chief Rabbi of Poland |
| Andrzej Folwarczny | – Forum for Dialogue |
| Piotr Puchta | – Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland |
| Lesław Piszewski | – Jewish Religious Council in Warsaw |
| Jonathan Ornstein | – Jewish Community Centre Kraków |
| Agata Rakowiecka | – Jewish Community Center Warszawa |
| Paweł Śpiewak | – Jewish Historical Institute |
| Marian Turski | – POLIN Museum Board |
| Alina Świdowska | – Second Generation Association – Descendants of Holocaust Survivors |
| Gołda Tencer | – Shalom Foundation |
| Artur Hofman | – Social-Cultural Association of Jews in Poland |
| Helise Lieberman | – Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland Foundation |
| Grażyna Pawlak | – The Prof. Moses Schorr Foundation |
| Klara Kołodziejska-Połtyn | – Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland |