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Natalia Romik is a public historian, architect and artist whose work focuses on Jewish memory and commemoration of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, particularly Poland and Ukraine. She has curated exhibitions, participated in rebuilding sites of remembrance and created the Nomadic Shtetl Archive Project, designed to engage local communities in remembering lost Jewish lives in small towns.
Romik is currently working on exploring and preserving hiding places used by Jews in the Holocaust.
Romik’s work combines archival investigation, theoretical research, architectural design, artistic practice, and social engagement. She has dedicated her efforts to investigating and preserving Jewish memory, especially its material and architectural traces, and the forgotten legacy of shtetls – small, historically Jewish towns.
She has designed exhibitions, staged performances and created nomadic installations in an effort to revive the spectral presence of Jewish communities while battling social amnesia and combating persistent antisemitism.
Romik is currently working on exploring and preserving hiding places used by Jews in the Holocaust.
Romik’s work combines archival investigation, theoretical research, architectural design, artistic practice, and social engagement. She has dedicated her efforts to investigating and preserving Jewish memory, especially its material and architectural traces, and the forgotten legacy of shtetls – small, historically Jewish towns.
She has designed exhibitions, staged performances and created nomadic installations in an effort to revive the spectral presence of Jewish communities while battling social amnesia and combating persistent antisemitism.
NATALIA ROMIK
