Czarny Dunajec at the USHMM in Washington

An important, comprehensive, extensive story about the Holocaust: its causes, course and consequences. If someone is not very familiar with the subject, it shows in a very accessible way what the Holocaust was all about. If someone knows the subject well, they can learn something new, for example about the Holocaust in countries other than Poland.

"Accessible way" does not mean easy and pleasant, because there are very drastic but necessary images in the permanent exhibition: archival recordings and photos from mass executions, from the liberation of camps. This stays in the memory for a long time and is supposed to stay for a long time.

The museum has slogans such as: "We do not have all the answers", "Think about what you saw". One leaves there with the thought: certain mechanisms in history repeat themselves, also today, what can we do to stop them?
On one of the walls between the exhibitions, the names of towns in Europe where Jewish communities once lived are written. It also includes the name of Czarny Dunajec.

In addition to the main exhibition in the USHMM building in downtown Washington, the institution also has an archive located outside the city. Access to it is primarily available to Holocaust researchers, but also to journalists and teachers. Some materials are only available on-site; they cannot be viewed in online resources. This is how I found, among others, a photo of one of the so-called “Children of Tehran” from Czarny Dunajec, a wartime photograph of a German soldier talking to a Jew with a Star of David armband, and a story by one of the Survivors who survived the war in Poland. I will describe these stories separately later.

More about museum: https://www.ushmm.org/pl