Ceremonial awarding of contracts to new guides

In the Museum of the Second World War, on March 3, the ceremonial awarding of contracts to new guides was held. Several dozen guides received the documents authorizing them to giving tours around the Gdańsk institution from the Director of the Museum of the Second World War, Dr. Karol Nawrocki,.

A spokesman for the Museum of the Second World War and the coordinator of guidance, Aleksander Masłowski, welcomed those gathered, noting:

In just a moment you will be full-fledged guides in the Museum of the Second World War. Some of you already have guiding experience and for those of you, both the course and the license that you will receive in a moment as well as being a guide of our Museum is quite often just adding another to a very rich list of guiding achievements. However, for some of you, today's authorization is the first contact with professional guidance. (...) Regardless of whether the guidance becomes your profession, second profession, hobby or life passion - from tomorrow on you will represent the Museum of the Second World War and its Director towards our guests.

Director of the Museum of the Second World War, dr. Karol Nawrocki, congratulated the new guides and reminded them of the privileges and responsibilities that rest on the representatives of an institution of international importance.

Currently, nearly 100 people will support the mission of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk in shaping the awareness of not only Poles, but also guests from abroad, citizens around the world. We will address the victims of this conflict, its course and consequences, but I hope that you will not forget about heroes who have dedicated themselves not only to the struggle for survival, but also to the fight for freedom and preserving the attributes of humanity.

The Director also thanked the press spokesman, who undertook regulating the issue of the guidance in the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk. He noted that it took a lot of courage and being a professional guide to decide on such a difficult and demanding job. He also referred to the responsibility resting on the guides.

Telling about the history is like watching an album with photos, pictures are after all only a fraction, a fragment of the past reality, approaching the objectivism of the past, but are not able to fully render it. All pictures contain facts and facts only. Pictures are a reflection of the truth, yet when looking through an album, only in the case of a few we stop for a longer time. (...) A photo album will not tell our whole life, it will not tell the life of our whole family. And similarly, no one is able to tell the story of World War II in three, five, ten or even fifty hours. Even with such a technologically advanced exhibition as the one in the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk.