Participatory memory workshops – Krzywowólka

Event program

On November 27, 2024, at the Complex of Schools in Sławatycze, the Zapomniane Foundation team conducted participatory memory workshops around the burial site of a Jewish woman buried in Krzywowólka. The Jewish woman Binefowa, a miller's wife and resident of Krzywowólka, was murdered by the Ukrainian police in 1942 and buried in the animal cemetery in Krzywowólka. Until now, her burial site had remained invisible.

Thanks to the joint actions of the local community and the youth of the Complex of Schools in Sławatycze, the burial site was marked with a wooden matzeva.

During the workshops, together with eighth-grade primary school students, we prepared a wooden marker in the form of a matzeva, and then - using a portable laser - we burned an inscription and symbols on it.

After the workshops, together with the youth, we went to the burial site of the Jewish woman Binefowa, where a ceremony was held to commemorate this site with a wooden matzeva. Paweł Jowik, a resident of Krzywólka and a graduate of the school in Sławatycze, took part in the workshops. He told the students about the place and his interest in the history of the city and its surroundings. The event was preceded by field research conducted by the foundation team. They met with the residents of Krzywólka who remembered this history or knew it from stories.