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Conference presentations by workers of our Museum
Today, on Thursday, 20 November, representatives of the Central Museum of Prisoners of War took part in two scientific conferences held parallel in Toruń and Łódź.
Director of the Museum, Dr Violetta Rezler-Wasielewska, participated in the conference in the cycle “Heritage and Development” organized by the Standing Conference of Museums and Territorial Self-Government. She was one of the debaters in the plenary panel under the title “How to develop scientific work in museums and cooperation with academic environments”. The meeting of the panel was also attended by Dr hab. Waldemar Ossowski, professor of the University of Gdańsk and Prof. dr hab. Ewa Wyka.
The event was held in the Burgher’s Hall of the Old Town Hall in Toruń. This year’s seminar was run under the motto “On scientific work in the museum” and provided a space for exchange of experiences between museums, organizations of museologists and representatives of territorial self-government.
The organizers of the conference were the following entities: Union of Polish Counties, the City of Toruń and the District Museum in Toruń. The programme of the conference was prepared by the Wigierskie Collegium Foundation together with the Branch of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Association of Polish Museologists. The meeting is a continuation of the cycle launched in 2011, one of the editions of which took place at Opole Town Hall.
Also, on 20 November, at the Museum of Polish Children – Victims of Totalitarianism, Dr Piotr Stanek, Head of Scientific Department of our Museum, presented his paper under the title “Underage girls of the Warsaw Uprising in the Wehrmacht captivity”. The topic raised a great deal of interest on the part of the participants of the conference and made an important point during the discussion that followed the ending of the panel.
The event took place within the framework of the third part of the cycle dedicated to the situation of children in the final phase of World War II and in the first years after the war. This year’s leading theme was: “80 years have passed. The situation of children at the end of World War II and in the first years of the postwar period (1944–1949)”.