The new cycle of literary meetings organized by the Warsaw Jewish Community “In hardback – about books on Twarda Street” will be opened by a meeting with Ewa Kuryluk, entitled „A Walk Around Frascati”. The title of this event is at the same time the title of the book by Ewa Kuryluk, published in 2009, in which the author tells the story of her Polish-Jewish family. The meeting will take place on October 7^th, 2010 at 7 pm in the Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw. It will be moderated by Mladen Petrov – journalist and member of the Warsaw Jewish Community.

“Frascati” is a book devoted to the late relatives of the writer. Ewa Kuryluk writes about her father, who was honored with the title of the Righteous Among the Nations. She recalls her brother, who begged for euthanasia on hospital corridors. Kuryluk also repeats her mother’s words, who said that psychiatric clinics remind her of ghettos. The book is a personal confession and its historical background is the extermination of Jews in Poland, Polish-Jewish relations and the Righteous Among the Nations.

Karol Kuryluk was posthumously honored with the title ”Righteous Among the Nations” in 2002. During the Second World War he organized escapes from the Lviv Ghetto – he looked for hiding places for Jews and organized the so-called Aryan papers. He helped rescue many people, among them Peppa Frauenglas and her two sons Józef and Marian. He was a member of PPR (Polish Workers’ Party) and of the Delegature of the Home Army. After the Second World War he was Minister of Culture and Arts (1956-1958) and ambassador of Poland to Austria (1959-1964). He was in favour of liberalization of culture and opening to the West. He was member of the Polish United Workers’ Party. Before the Second World War he founded the “Sygnały” magazine – between 1933 and 1939 he was its editor-in-chief. He was a journalist, publisher and social activist. He died in Budapest on December 9^th, 1967.

Ewa Kuryluk is an artist, writer and art historian. She participated in about 40 individual and 60 collective exhibitions. She is author of  autobiographical books in which she copes with the Holocaust experience. Ewa Kuryluk was nominated to the Nike Literary Award twice.

Two days before the meeting being part of the cycle “In hardback – about books on Twarda Street”, on October 5^th at 6 pm in Empik Megastore at 116/122 Marszałkowska Street in Warsaw will take place the discussion “The Survivors and the Righteous in literary testimony” on the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Karol Kuryluk with the participation of Ewa Kuryluk, Dr. Jacek Leociak and Wilhelm Dichter, moderated by Anna Bikont. This event will open a series of meetings devoted to the Righteous, organized as part of the project “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History” by the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.