Objects

Board from the comic strip about Jacek, a contemporary boy becoming familiar with the story of the banquer Hipolit Wawelberg (1843–1901), well-known for his broad social activity and, in parallel, the story of Icek who achieved social advance thanks to Wawelberg’s philanthropic projects (story inspired by, inter alia, visual documentation collected in the Shalom Foundation’s project ‘And I Can Still See Their Faces…’) The story contains an oneiric motif: the realities of Jacek’s and Icek’s lives overlap when Jacek sees Icek’s pre-war life (when he lies faint at Kolonia Wawelberga, a housing estate in the Warsaw district of Wola funded by the banker).

The board printed for the POLIN collection closes the novella. It reminds the viewer of the grave of Wawelberg, located at the Jewish cemetery at Okopowa Street in Warsaw and preserved to the present day.