In the period between 1918-1948 Vilnius was a melting pot, a liminal city, reminiscent of Lviv or Trieste in its multifaceted life and social dynamics experiencing population alternations. Moreover it was rife with political turbulences: the struggle for the city, the integration of Vilnius into Poland and the subsequent almost 20-year long years of period of stabilisation, the Soviet and Nazi occupations, the Holocaust, the exodus of the interwar Vilnius inhabitants to Poland after the WWII, and the intensification of the Stalinist terror. This multi-layered history of the city will be presented by Prof. Dr Giedrė Jankevičiūtė through the lense of the exhibition “Vilnius, Wilno, Vilne 1918-1948: one city – many stories”, which will be on display at the Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie and the National Art Gallery in Vilnius in 2023 (curators: Giedrė Jankevičiūtė and Andrzej Szczerski).
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