Together with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and the Australian Society of Polish Jews and their Descendants (ASPJ), join us for a rare opportunity to hear from Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski, State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, as he reflects on The Revival of Jewish Life in Poland After 1989.
This special address will be followed by a screening of The Granddaughter.
THE GRANDDAUGHTER (WNUCZKA NACZELNEJ)
Directed by Masza Makarowa, Poland, 2025
Produced by: Warsaw Ghetto Museum (Muzeum Getta Warszawskiego / Warsaw Ghetto Museum).
Why did Dr Anna Braude-Heller, chief physician of the Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital, choose to remain in the Warsaw Ghetto when she might have escaped? Why did she face death alongside her patients rather than seek safety with her family?
In this deeply moving documentary, her granddaughter, Ewa Heller-Ekblad, returns to Warsaw at the age of eighty-five in search of answers. Retracing the fragments of her childhood, she revisits places long held in memory — her family home, the convent where she was hidden — and encounters those who remember a past she can barely recall herself.
Through the recollections of others, she attempts to reconstruct her own history and confront the legacy of her grandmother’s choices. In doing so, she grapples with profound questions of memory, understanding, and forgiveness.
Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Cambridge and an MA in anthropology and history from the University of Warsaw. Having completed his PhD, he worked as an independent research fellow at the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick.
A CEO and board member at international financial institutions in Poland (JP Morgan, ING Barings, Credit Suisse), he was also a deputy CEO and board member at Exatel S.A. (2014–2016).
Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski has been at the head of the Władysław Bartoszewski Chair at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw since 2015. An MP in the Polish Sejm since 2019 (during the ninth and the tenth terms of the Sejm), he was a member of the Polish Coalition parliamentary caucus, a deputy chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and a member of the Energy, Climate and State Assets Committee in the ninth-term Sejm, re-elected as deputy chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the tenth-term Sejm.
Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski speaks English, French, and Russian.
