Director and co-founder of the Jewish Festival of Culture in Cracow, one of the biggest events of its kind in the world. Janusz Makuch, like all other Jewish Festival organisers, is not Jewish. In 2008, he was the first recipient of the Irena Sendler prize awarded by the Taube Foundation for preserving and revitalising Jewish heritage in Poland. For his work in this area, he was also awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. (2017)