IU President Michael A. McRobbie and the IU delegation toured the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which first opened in spring 2013.The delegation visited the Ghetto Heroes Monument (pictured here) while in Warsaw, Poland outside the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The monument commemorates those individuals who lost their lives in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and helps to serve the museum’s mission, which Director Dariusz Stola defines as “reflection and remembrance.”One of the standout pieces in the POLIN Museum’s Core Exhibition is a wooden synagogue, originally built in the mid-17th century and painstakingly reconstructed by almost 400 volunteers from Poland and abroad.IU School of Global and International Studies Dean Lee Feinstein (left) and Dariusz Stola, director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, sign an internship agreement between IU and the museum. In back from the left are IU Vice President for International Affairs David Zaret and IU President Michael A. McRobbie.IU Vice President for International Affairs David Zaret (left to right), IU President Michael A. McRobbie and Chairman of the POLIN Museum Council Marian Turski pose together for a photo. Turski is a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and he had a distinguished career in Poland as a journalist and Jewish activist.
