A crowd-sourcing campaign has been launched to create a lapidarium at the destroyed Jewish cemetery in Wronki, Poland, where hundreds of matzevot and fragments have been rescued from improper use and collected on the cemetery site.
Most of the financing for the approx $20,000 project has been secured from EU funds and the city. The local association that is overseeing the project is seeking only 3000 zlotys — about $1,000.
See this video about the campaign and project:
Wronki’s two Jewish cemeteries were destroyed by the Nazis and their stones were broken and used to pave a road and build curbs.
About 800 pieces of matzevot were discovered in 2011.The first stage of documenting them was completed in 2013, carried out by students from the Section of Hebrew, Aramaic and Karaim Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, aided by local historians Daniel Kwaśniewski and Piotro Pojasek and inmates from the prison near Wronki.
The project enjoys the support of the Municipality and Poland’s Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich as well as the honorary patronage of the Poznań Metropolitan Archbishop, Stanislaw Gądecki.
Click to see more pictures of the stones and the site
3 comments on “Crowd-sourcing Jewish cemetery matzevah monument in PL”
This is beautiful.
impressive photographs ,sharp documenting a special part of history
Thanks a lot.
to pave a road ! as Jordan did to Jerusalem.(see Jerusalem by Montefiore): chronicles describing again and again to humiliate and/or destroy the Jewish Soul.
Enduring daily hate tribulations nowadays.
Time can not and will not change the utterly consistency of a Jewish. Soul in its Truth:Courage.
And do not forget our irresistible loud moments full of laugh.