On the initiative of FODZ, in the academic year 2021/2022, a special program was implemented at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Technology and Humanities in Radom. Students participating in this program enriched their knowledge of the history of Jews in Radom, prepared yearly theses as well as one diploma thesis. The initiator of this program was Ms. Renata Metzger, organizer of Meetings with Jewish Culture "Trace" in Radom, who has been cooperating with FODZ for several years.
The author of the diploma thesis mentioned at the beginning is Ms. Julia Pluta, a graduate of the Faculty of Art at the University of Technology and Humanities in Radom. Julia Pluta's diploma thesis indicates how to face the problem of gradual degradation of the monument located at Podwalna Street, commemorating Radom Jews - almost 30,000 people - murdered by Germans during World War II. From year to year, the monument collapses deeper, its stones crumble, each of the slabs of the square at Podwalna Street escapes in a different direction, and the buildings built around overwhelm this place. The whole quarter surrounding the monument is now rather a picture of oblivion.
On August 9 this year, there will be a presentation of the results of Julia Pluta’s diploma in the center: Łaźnia - Radom Club of Creative Environments and Gallery. This is not a random date. Because 80 years ago, in August, Germans murdered most of Radom's Jews.
The assumption of the initiators of the creation of the diploma thesis of Ms. Julia Pluta is that the public presentation of the work created under the direction of Prof. Andrzej Wyszyński will become the beginning of a public discussion about the necessary changes in the development of the square at Podwalna Street and, as a result, will lead to its revitalization. We are convinced that the initiative may lead to giving the proper character to the place after the former synagogue, at Podwalna Street, and thus will allow us to state that the inhabitants of Radom "do not hear the silence of oblivion about their Jewish neighbors".
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