SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
From 21 August to 28 September 2025
Outdoor Exhibition: The Past Through the Eyes of the Present. Białystok ’39
This exhibition of nine panels invites visitors to walk in the footsteps of the city’s history. Each panel outlines pre-war buildings or landmarks, enabling comparisons between their historical and present appearance. The walk can begin at any point, as each panel highlights a different site and its wartime story.
Locations: in front of the Dramatic Theatre, the courtyard of Branicki Palace, Kościuszko Market Square, Lipowa St. (corner of Malmeda St.), in front of St. Roch’s Church, Mickiewicza St. (by Alfa Centrum), and Branicki Square near the Władysław Bartoszewski Bridge
9 September 2025
5:00 p.m.
The Memories of a Sybirak interpreted by Adam Woronowicz
Premiere of the audiobook based on Biography Written by History by Col. Romuald Lipiński. The actor Adam Woronowicz, who gave his voice to the Colonel’s memoirs, will be the special guest
The meeting with Adam Woronowicz and Prof. Wojciech Śleszyński, Director of the Sybir Memorial Museum, will be hosted by Agnieszka Czarkowska (Polish Radio Białystok) and Marcin Zwolski, PhD (Head of the Museum’s Research Department). Participants will discover the creative process behind the audiobook, explore the craft of voice acting, and hear selected excerpts read by Adam Woronowicz.
Free admission
The Sybir Memorial Museum
14 September 2025
10:45 a.m. & 11:30 a.m.
I Will Tell You My Story: Guided Tour with Sybiraks
A special guided tour of the permanent exhibition with meetings with Sybiraks
This exceptional tour of the Sybir Memorial Museum’s permanent exhibition has been prepared to mark World Day of Siberian Deportees, commemorated on September 17. During the walk with a guide, participants will meet women and men who experienced deportation to Siberia, and who will share their personal memories of exile and life in harsh conditions. It is a rare and deeply moving opportunity to hear history first-hand—not only through documents and artifacts, but also through the testimony of those who themselves endured Siberia.
Tickets: 10 PLN per person, available online and at the museum’s ticket office.
The Sybir Memorial Museum (permanent exhibition)
17 September 2025
Official Commemorations
11:30 a.m.
Placing flowers at the Monument–Grave of the Unknown Sybirak (by the Church of the Holy Spirit)
11:45 a.m.
Placing flowers at the Monument to the Victims of Soviet Deportations (R. Traugutta St.)
12.00 p.m.
Main ceremony at the Monument to the Heroic Siberian Mothers (1 Węglowa St.)
9:00 p.m.
Mapping – 17 September – We Remember
The Sybir Memorial Museum (façade on Poleska St.)
25 September 2025
6:00 p.m.
Photo Report from Siberia – Author’s Meeting with Wojciech Łaski
Join us for an author’s meeting with Wojciech Łaski, one of the most distinguished Polish-French émigré photojournalists, who has spent decades documenting political and social life in Eastern Europe and Siberia. He will present the background to his photo series featured in the exhibition Siberian World. History – Life – Survival, while also sharing personal reflections on his reportage work in Siberia, encounters with descendants of Polish deportees, and insights into life in one of the world’s most unforgiving regions.
Free admission
The Sybir Memorial Museum (audiovisual hall)
From 25 September to 9 October 2025
Temporary Exhibition Siberian World. History – Life – Survival – Journalistic photography by Wojciech Łaski
The exhibition Siberian World. History – Life – Survival features 25 selected photographs by Wojciech Jan Łaski (Wojtek Łaski), a Polish-French photojournalist active since the 1970s with leading international press agencies such as SIPA Press, Gamma, Keystone, and Black Star. The exhibition is based on his extensive travels and fieldwork in Siberia, conducted between 1988 and 2008.
The photographs are both documentary and existential in nature – they reveal the difficult history of a region whose past is inseparably linked with the Polish experience of deportation, while also depicting the contemporary face of Siberia as a land of cultural, social, and human contrasts.
Free admission
The Sybir Memorial Museum (temporary exhibition hall)
