The exhibition is made up of unique archival photographs from the extensive collection of over 7000 photos from the Istanbul Research Institute (İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü, IRI ) and the Pera Museum (Pera Müzesi, PM) in Istanbul, showing both the transformation of the city at the turn of the 20th century and the dynamic development of photography, displaying photographs by leading 19th‑century Istanbul photographers. »
Zoran Mušič (1909–2005) had already been an established Slovenian artist by the time he was deported to the Dachau concentration camp for several months in late 1944. The drawings he created there are harrowing documents of that time. »
Otto Wagner (1841–1918) is one of the most significant architects of the turn of the 20th century. His building projects – among them the Vienna city railway (Wiener Stadtbahn), the Postal Savings Bank (Postsparkasse), and the Kirche am Steinhof church – are regarded as milestones on the path from historicism to modernism. »
Bałkany obrosły stereotypami jak mało który region Europy. Już w XIX wieku stygmatyzowano tam wielkich i małych. Osmańską Turcję – „chorego człowieka Europy” – i dzielnie zrzucających jej jarzmo Serbów, Rumunów, Bułgarów czy Albańczyków. Widziano w nich „ludy bez historii”, zdane na łaskę i niełaskę mocarstw, niepotrafiące w pełni same o sobie stanowić.
Ece Temelkuran wrote a short guide for Western readers on Turkish politics, history and culture. That doesn”t mean however that we are dealing with a superficial book; on the contrary, Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy is a captivating essay on the formation of a contemporary authoritarian state. »
This exhibition is devoted to people engaged in underground work during World War II as part of the Krakow branch of the Polish Council to Aid Jews (Żegota). The exhibition currently presented in Oskar Schindler’s Factory, a branch of the Historical Museum, expands upon the themes present in the permanent exhibition Kraków under Nazi Occupation 1939–1945. »
Contrary to what is commonly feared in Poland, the interlocutors do not usually mean “Polish camps” nor suggest that Auschwitz, Treblinka or Majdanek were run by Poles. This is the view of a handful of dunces. »
