A total of 18 memorial stones will be unveiled at five sites in Warsaw on Saturday and in the central city of Łódź, Libeskind's birthplace, on Sunday.
One of the Stolpersteine (German for "stumbling stones") will be installed outside 44 Lipowa St. in Łódź, where Nachman Libeskind, the architect's father and a Holocaust survivor, lived before World War II.
His aunt Rózia, who also survived the Holocaust, along with eight relatives who were murdered at the Nazi German Kulmhof extermination camp, will also be commemorated in Łódź.
In Warsaw, brass memorial stones will be embedded in the pavement outside the last known residences of Libeskind's uncle, Natan Libeskind, and Cywia Blausztejn, who was murdered during the war together with four of her eight children.
Natan Libeskind was one of the leaders of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He is believed to have been murdered at the Nazi German Treblinka extermination camp.
Libeskind was born in Łódź in 1946 to a family of Polish Jews. He lived in Poland until the age of 11, when his family emigrated to Israel and later settled in the United States.
He has frequently spoken of his Polish roots and his strong attachment to Łódź. In 2022, he was awarded honorary citizenship of the city.
Libeskind's major projects include the Jewish Museum Berlin, the master plan for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in New York, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester.
He also designed Złota 44, a landmark 192-metre residential skyscraper in central Warsaw.
The Złota 44 residential skyscraper in central Warsaw, designed by Daniel Libeskind. Photo: Julian Horodyski/Polish Radio
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