Holocaust Memorial Partnership

About Us

This is an immensely important element: we can be effective in conveying the history and the message of the Holocaust, all of us with different views and ethnic backgrounds, united under a common banner. Because what unites us is not that we want to tell a specific Jewish story. The Holocaust is not just a Jewish story but a manifestation of the decline of Western civilization. Combating antisemitism, resisting potential genocide, is an inherent component of our survival, both ethically and physically. It is our duty to ourselves.

Over the past 3 years, we have educated 100,000 people about Auschwitz. Sitting in our tiny studios, where we have set up two computers and our audio-visual recordings, we have told the story of Auschwitz to schools in New York, Washington, London, India, and New Zealand. Our live sessions last 90–120 minutes (1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours), including time for questions and discussion. Participants can engage directly with the educator throughout the session. Today, after 3 years and tens of thousands of participants, we can confidently say: yes, we know how to tell the story of the Holocaust remotely, through audiovisual sessions. And we can do it everywhere. There are no geographical limitations today. People with disabilities, students in small schools in Alabama, elderly individuals, busy corporate employees - in other words, everyone - we don't need to physically go to Auschwitz, Treblinka, or other former extermination camps to understand what had happened there. To see what had happened there.

2015 Partnership founded by educators and guides

2020 Online Holocaust education program launched

100k People educated about Auschwitz in recent years

Global Schools, universities and communities reached online

Dr. Jerzy Wójcik

Certified Auschwitz Guide & Educator

PhD in Political ScienceField: International Relations and the Middle East. PhD dissertation: Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Holocaust Memorial PartnershipCreator and founder.

Collaboration with InstitutionsAuschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Center for International Relations, European Association of Israel Studies.

Dr. Jerzy Wójcik in the Auschwitz Virtual Tour studio

Jerzy Wójcik was born and raised in Oświęcim (Auschwitz), Poland. He graduated from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where he studied International Relations as well as Middle and Far Eastern Studies, and in 2010 he received a PhD in Political Science. He was awarded scholarships by the Florentyna Kogutowska Fund at Jagiellonian University and by the State of Israel, which enabled him to conduct research as a Research Fellow at Tel Aviv University.

For more than two decades, Jerzy has been involved in Holocaust education, research, and public engagement. He has worked with a number of academic and educational institutions in Poland and abroad, including the Jagiellonian University Center for Holocaust Studies in Kraków, the Center for International Relations in Warsaw, and the European Association of Israel Studies. Since 2004, he has also worked as an educator and licensed guide at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, leading study visits for students, educators, professionals, and international groups.

In 2015, he founded the Holocaust Memorial Partnership, through which he develops educational programs focused on Auschwitz, the Holocaust, and their contemporary relevance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he created the Auschwitz Virtual Tour, an innovative live educational format combining 360-degree panoramas, archival photographs, historical documents, maps, survivor testimonies, film materials, and multimedia presentations. The program has since reached audiences internationally and is now being expanded through Auschwitz Virtual Tour On-Site, in which Jerzy travels directly to schools, universities, museums, and communities to bring the experience of Auschwitz into classrooms and lecture halls.

His work combines two perspectives that he considers inseparable: the historical uniqueness of the Holocaust and its universal significance for understanding dehumanization, exclusion, propaganda, responsibility, and human choice. Through lectures, study visits, virtual programs, and international educational residencies, he seeks to connect the history of Auschwitz with the moral and civic questions facing contemporary societies.

Certified Auschwitz Guide & Educator

Polin TravelOwner.

Auschwitz after AuschwitzBook author.

Teen Flying University

Dr. Tomasz Cebulski

Tomasz Cebulski was born in Kraków. He graduated with MA in International Relations from Jagiellonian University, Kraków. In October 2014, he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Relations at Jagiellonian University. In 2000, he founded a research and historical interpretation center called POLIN TRAVEL (www.jewish-guide.pl). It focuses on history, genealogy, and guiding, providing a holistic visit experience in Central Europe.

Cebulski is the author of a book, Auschwitz after Auschwitz. History, memory, politics. The book debates the dynamic of construction of the Holocaust memory, provides an insight into the Auschwitz Museum through analyzing the politics of commemoration and conflict resolution a the side in the last 3 decades. In 2020, Tomasz established a new visual project SKY HERITAGE PICTURES to present historical sites from a new drone vantage point. The films produced by SHP in Gen-FILM-It series are used by museums, educational institutions and in narrating family genealogies. The productions are sharable and involving new digital tools to narrate history.

In 2020, Cebulski established the TEEN FLYING UNIVERSITY to promote education of Polish youth. Project is based on teaching values of social diversity and democracy as being rooted in history awareness. Within the project local sites of memory are being discovered, taken care of and interpreted by the youth for the sake of local history awareness, responsibility and education.

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Online activity from Auschwitz, Krakow, Paris, Tel Aviv, London, Washington, New York and Boston. Meetings can be arranged via Zoom, WhatsApp or Microsoft Teams.

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