📅 25 February 2026 (Wednesday), 18:00 📍 main hall of the POLIN Museum 🗣️ discussion in Polish 🆓 free admission
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One can be on a journey even before being born. For thousands of kilometres, across languages, borders and the postwar chaos. This is how the story described in the book Place of Birth: Dzierżoniów begins. During the meeting in the POLIN Reading Room we will talk about the experience of repatriation, about memory recorded “from the inside” and about a town that for many became a new beginning after 1945. The starting point will be the personal story of Helena Lindskog - seen from the perspective of a child who had not yet been born, but was already part of the great postwar migration. The author will be in conversation with Joanna Król-Komła.
Helena Lindskog (Stawska) – professor of industrial economics and holder of a humanities degree. At Ericsson Helena was responsible for marketing and training across all world markets, giving presentations in Swedish, English, Spanish, French, Russian and Polish. In the Swedish public administration she was a technical director, secretary of several government commissions and Sweden’s representative to the European Commission and IT and telecommunications standardisation organisations. Helena enjoys swimming, dancing, mushroom picking and mountain hiking. She feels equally at home at cocktails as she does alone with a book. Author of the book "Poor and Rich in Time", she has published many articles, chronicles and papers. She has lived in Stockholm since 1970. Joanna Król-Komła – graduated from the University of Warsaw in Polish philology and studied the history and culture of Jews at the Anielewicz Center and at Tel Aviv University. Since 2010 she has worked at the POLIN Museum, where she is responsible for the development of the museum’s digital repository, oral history collection, and the knowledge portals Wirtualny Sztetl and Sprawiedliwi. She is the author of numerous interviews with Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, emigrants of March ’68, representatives of the Jewish community in Poland, as well as reportage, sketches, articles and exhibitions devoted to Jewish history. Member of ICOM.
