On August 16, Białystok marked the 80th anniversary of its ghetto uprising with the unveiling of city’s first Stolpersteine thanks to the efforts of Mariusz Sokołowski from our Network cooperating with City of Białystok. The memory of Holocaust Survivor Samuel Pisar’s family was honored by laying memorial cobble stones laid on the sidewalk by the apartment they occupied before the war. Apart from this permanent commemoration, Mariusz invited Białystok’s youth to participate in his “Białystok Remembers!” educational program, focused on the story of a ten-year-old Holocaust victim Frieda Pisar, whose biography inspired participants to create an art installation of stories, letters, and drawings.

Photos by Hanna Gospodarczyk i Bartosz Duszyński

“Białystok Remembers!” project by Mariusz Sokołowski and the Open Education Foundation was co-financed by Forum for Dialogue as a part of 2023 Grant Competition.

In 2023, the program for activists belonging to Forum for Dialogue Network, including grants and scholarships, is financed thanks to the generosity of Friends of the Forum, LEDOR WADOR Foundation, United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, and individual donors and institutions from Poland and abroad supporting Forum for Dialogue. Scholarships for personal development are possible thanks to The David and Anna Dlugie Kliger Scholarship Fund.