Learn about (and help support) the ongoing project to restore the Bagnowka Jewish cemetery in Bialystok, Poland, the only remaining Jewish cemetery in the city.
Just weeks after the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow was rededicated after a more than two-year restoration, vandals spray-painted antisemitic graffiti on the newly repaired wall next to the entrance gate.
It read: “Jews eat children Jadowniki eats Jews”. (Jadowniki is a nearby village.)
The Committee for the Protection of Jewish Heritage in Tarnow has organized a clean-up for Monday morning July 22, in order to paint over the slogans.
“We believe that the majority of Tarnów residents, like us,… oppose all forms of hooliganism, boorishness, anti-Semitism, or any discrimination and humiliation of other people, their origin, appearance, sex, age, etc.,” it said, announcing the initiative. “Let us show that in our city, there is no place for this type of acts of hooliganism.”
Volunteers are asked to bring paint brushes and rollers, if they have them. Otherwise they will be provided.
Read our article about the rededication of the cemetery
Volunteer clean up of the Jewish cemetery, which dates back to the 16th century
Clean-up in the Jewish cemetery in the city outside of which the Auschwitz death camp was built. Before the Holocaust, Oswiecim was a majority Jewish town.
Join in a day of cleaning up and clearing vegetation in the Jewish cemetery in Oswiecim, Poland
The event is sponsored by the Cultural Heritage Foundation and Jews of Otwock FB page and will take place as part of a project financed by the National Heritage Institute’s program “Together for Heritage”.
The meeting will start at 11.oo with an introduction about the history of the place.
The organizers provide tools and gloves. Men are asked to cover their heads
Please register your participation at the following address: zydzi.otwoccy@op.pl
Information about the cemetery from the sztetl.org website:
“The cemetery of the Jewish commune in Otwock was established at the beginning of the 20th century, south of Otwock, within the present administrative boundaries of Karczew, between Andriollego Street and Czerwona Droga Street. The easiest way to get to the cemetery from the side of Karczew is through Czerwona Droga Street. the forest on the right side you can see a wooden chapel, the cemetery is on the left side, about 200 m further. You can also reach the cemetery from Otwock, turning right from Andriolego Street into Hrabiego Street or directly into Czerwona Droga Street.
In the interwar period, mainly people who died in hospitals and sanatoriums in Otwock were buried in the cemetery.
link: https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/miejscowosci/o/590-otwock/114-cmentaniem/26950-cmentarz-zydowski-w-otwocku-ul-hrabiego
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Volunteer clean-up of Jewish cemetery in Oswiecim.
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