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The Jewish cemetery at Okopowa Street in Warsaw.
History, conservation, archaeology…

Scientific conference,
27-28 may 2025, Warsaw

28.04.2025

Polish Cultural Heritage Foundation,

Mazovian Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments

and

The Jewish Community of Warsaw

invite you to a scientific conference

“The Jewish cemetery at Okopowa Street in Warsaw. History, conservation, archaeology…”,

which will take place in Warsaw on May 27-28, 2025.

 

Large-scale conservation work, the use of new research technologies, pioneering archaeological work, the development of standards for conservation activities at monuments of Jewish sepulchral art, the complexity of commemoration, the discovery of forgotten artists and cooperation with the descendants or followers of the deceased, but also parallel research in the field of genealogy and Hebrew studies, ornithology or greenery care, all in accordance with Jewish law – these are just some of the interdisciplinary activities carried out at the Jewish cemetery at Okopowa Street in Warsaw.

The conference is held on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Cultural Heritage Foundation’s work on the cemetery and aims to present the changes taking place there.

 

Program

Day I

      • May 27, 2025, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. – scientific sessions

(Column Hall of the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, 26/28 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street)

Day II

      • May 28, 2025 – presentations of works at the cemetery

(Jewish cemetery at 49/51 Okopowa Street in Warsaw)

Registration

Applications for participation will be accepted until May 15, 2025 using the form

[link here]

 

Participation in the conference is free of charge.
We will inform you about the acceptance of the application by e-mail.

The conference will also be broadcast online.

Organizers:
Cultural Heritage Foundation, Poland
Mazovian Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments, Poland
The Jewish Community of Warsaw
The co-organizers of the conference are:
    • Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Poland
    • Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
    • Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences
    • Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
    • The Main Board of the Association of Art Historians, Poland
    • The Main Board of the Association of Monument Conservators, Poland

 

The project is being carried out thanks to funding from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage to increase the endowment fund of the Cultural Heritage Foundation for renovation work at the Jewish Cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw.

Project co-financed from the Polish state budget

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