Guided tours along the exhibition "A Key to the City: Three Ways of Visualizing Jewish Heritage in Lviv"

All excursions are free of charge.

• 11.6.6.30 pm60 min.

  

  Rachel Stevens

  exhibition’s curator

  How do you tell about contested histories and tragedies Lviv survived during the WW2 and the Holocaust? How do you identify, visualize, and humanize the heritage of the exterminated and displaced communities that used to live in our city? How do you work with this heritage and local memory within the city’s public space?

• 8.6. 6.30 pm60 min.

  

  Rachel Stevens, Jack Wright, Taras Nazaruk

  During the excursion, you will learn more about the motivation Rachel Stevens had to opt for the topic, and why it is important for the present-day Lviv. What does the number 75 stand for in the art installation? What is a symbolism that the artist invested into the title “A Key to the City”? Jack Wright will tell about the history of the Higgers family and other Jews who survived during the Holocaust in Lviv hiding for 14 months in the city sewers. Marking and visualizing eight hiding places of the Jews at the exhibition connects the locations to the contemporary spaces of the city and enables talking about the contested history of Lviv and about the memory of the exterminated community of the city. Taras Nazaruk will introduce an interactive map “100 Addresses of Lviv” as a way to make Jewish heritage present through experiences of the map’s compiler, Borys Orach. The map visualizes not only the Jewish heritage sites of Lviv but also indicates how and through which sources Lviv community of the 1990s were rediscovering Jewish Lviv.