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Jewellery from Captivity. Film Premiere
Since January 2021, each month, has been presented an instalment of the series …but that’s a different story now. Today, the 10th episode, Jewellery from Captivity, will have its premiere. The film tells the story of artefacts from the Museum's collection made by Warsaw insurgents – prisoners-of-war in the Wehrmacht captivity, about the makers, and about our work.
The objects depicted in the film are mostly jewellery, also with religious or patriotic symbols, made from materials that were available in prisoner-of-war camps, such as tin cans. The jewelly was made by Lila Tazbir and her three daughters, as described in the film by Stanisława Borzemska, a long-term head of the Museum's Education and Exhibition Department, and Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, who encountered "The Vistula with three tributaries" during her prisoner-of-war journey. This is how the mother and her daughters were called by their fellow captives.
The series was prepared at the end of 2020 thanks to the "Culture Available" programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The twelve instalments to be presented this year, on each last Monday of the month, was produced by Sławomir Mielnik in accordance with the concept of Dr. Violetta Rezler-Wasielewska.