The Grodzka Gate stands at the edge of the old town, where the medieval city met the Jewish district of Podzamcze below the castle. For centuries it was the everyday threshold between the Catholic and Jewish quarters of Lublin. After the Nazi annihilation of Lublin's Jewish population, the gate became a boundary between the living and the absent.
The NN Theatre cultural centre inside the gate has turned this history into a remarkable ongoing project: recovering the names and photographs of Lublin's Jewish citizens, most of whom were killed at Majdanek or deported to Bełżec. Their permanent exhibition, "Pamięć Miejsca" (Memory of Place), is one of the most thoughtful Holocaust memorials in Poland — personal and specific rather than statistical. The centre also runs theatre productions, exhibitions, and educational programs.