Ludu, bój się

“Ludu, bój się” (“People, Be Afraid”) is an exhibition at POLIN Museum presenting a personal, contemporary perspective of young people on the history of the Holocaust and the memory of violence. No official English title has been published by the museum - the name above is a descriptive gloss, not an official translation. The show grew out of CoREM (Collective Remembrance: Engaging Youth Through Curatorial Practices), an international project co-funded by the European Commission and run in parallel in Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Armenia and Spain. Participants were not passive learners - they took on the role of curators themselves, reinterpreting the museum’s own source material and asking difficult questions, partly through performance and body-based methods.

Creators and curators: Hanna Czarnik, Karolina Kacprzak, Piotr Krawczyk, Liliana Krupa, Maciej Leśniak, Wiktor Masny, Anastazja Maślak, Anastasiia Melnyk, Nikola Pietroń, Izabela Smyk, Łukasz Sosnowski, Z. Strzelczyk, Klara Szlanta and Zofia Wiergiles.

What to expect

The exhibition runs from 22 June to 15 September 2026 in the Educational Center foyer, on the 1st floor of POLIN Museum. Admission is free and no advance reservation is needed.

This is not a conventional historical show curated by museum staff - it is a young people’s perspective, built over several months of working with POLIN’s own source material into an independent narrative about memory and violence. The resulting objects, interpretations and personal testimonies can be seen without booking, alongside a visit to the permanent exhibition.

More on the CoREM project and the exhibition on POLIN Museum’s website.

Museum profile: POLIN Museum.