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Jul
4
Sun
Jewish cemetery cleanup Warsaw @ Okopowa st Jewish cemetery
Jul 4 @ 11:00 – 17:00
Jewish cemetery cleanup Warsaw @ Okopowa st Jewish cemetery | Warszawa | Mazowieckie | Poland

 

Regular volunteer cleanup action at the Okopowa st. Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. come one, come all!

Jul
25
Sun
Warsaw Jewish cemetery cleanup @ Jewish cemetery
Jul 25 @ 11:00 – 17:00
Warsaw Jewish cemetery cleanup @ Jewish cemetery | Warszawa | Mazowieckie | Poland

The next in the regular Sunday cleanup sessions at the main Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. 

 

Aug
29
Sun
“Restoring the Memory of Jewish Communities of Upper Silesia” @ online
Aug 29 @ 19:00 – 20:00
“Restoring the Memory of Jewish Communities of Upper Silesia” @ online
“RESTORING THE MEMORY OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF UPPER SILESIA”
 
31 year old Sławek Pastuszka is the grandchild of two Holocaust survivors. He is the new head of the Katowice Chevrah Kadisha (burial society). Sławek is doctoral student in Judaic Studies at Jagiellonian University, a cemetery guardian/preservationist and a prolific author of books and articles on Jewish history and Jewish cemeteries.
 
Most recently, Sławek was instrumental in retrieving dozens of tombstones that were vandalized many years ago from the Sosnowiec cemetery. The talk will be in English.
Here is the Zoom link:
Meeting ID: 892 5998 5966
Passcode: HLK4Wh
Sep
2
Thu
Jewish cemetery Katowice clean-up @ Katowice Jewish cemetery
Sep 2 @ 10:00 – 18:00
Jewish cemetery Katowice clean-up @ Katowice Jewish cemetery | Katowice | Śląskie | Poland

On four Thursdays in September, there will be a volunteer clean-up action at the Jewish cemetery in Katowice, Poland, organised by Slawek Pastuszka of the Chevra Kadisha, and the Foundation for Cultural Heritage.

The organizers will try to provide the participants with as many tools as possible for work, but ask volunteers to bring at least cloth gloves and basic tools, preferably a rake. 

 

Sep
9
Thu
Jewish cemetery Katowice clean-up @ Katowice Jewish cemetery
Sep 9 @ 10:00 – 18:00
Jewish cemetery Katowice clean-up @ Katowice Jewish cemetery | Katowice | Śląskie | Poland

On four Thursdays in September, there will be a volunteer clean-up action at the Jewish cemetery in Katowice, Poland, organised by Slawek Pastuszka of the Chevra Kadisha, and the Foundation for Cultural Heritage.

The organizers will try to provide the participants with as many tools as possible for work, but ask volunteers to bring at least cloth gloves and basic tools, preferably a rake. 

 

Sep
17
Fri
Jewish cemetery cleanup @ Jewish cemetery in Dębowa
Sep 17 @ 18:00 – 19:00
Sep
23
Thu
Jewish cemetery Katowice clean-up @ Katowice Jewish cemetery
Sep 23 @ 10:00 – 18:00
Jewish cemetery Katowice clean-up @ Katowice Jewish cemetery | Katowice | Śląskie | Poland

On four Thursdays in September, there will be a volunteer clean-up action at the Jewish cemetery in Katowice, Poland, organised by Slawek Pastuszka of the Chevra Kadisha, and the Foundation for Cultural Heritage.

The organizers will try to provide the participants with as many tools as possible for work, but ask volunteers to bring at least cloth gloves and basic tools, preferably a rake. 

 

Sep
30
Thu
Jewish cemetery Katowice clean-up @ Katowice Jewish cemetery
Sep 30 @ 10:00 – 18:00
Jewish cemetery Katowice clean-up @ Katowice Jewish cemetery | Katowice | Śląskie | Poland

On four Thursdays in September, there will be a volunteer clean-up action at the Jewish cemetery in Katowice, Poland, organised by Slawek Pastuszka of the Chevra Kadisha, and the Foundation for Cultural Heritage.

The organizers will try to provide the participants with as many tools as possible for work, but ask volunteers to bring at least cloth gloves and basic tools, preferably a rake. 

 

Nov
22
Mon
Synagogues: Historic Buildings – on their cultural and educational potential @ online
Nov 22 @ 19:00 – 20:00
Synagogues: Historic Buildings – on their cultural and educational potential @ online

A conversation with Helise Lieberman (Executive Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Life & Learning Foundation ) and Dr. Glenn Kurtz (author of Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film). 

The Webinar is part of the Synagogues in Poland project of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland.

 

 

Register here — https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7lcg5DifQNWwuVVd2gXKLQ

 

 

Dec
7
Tue
Webinar – preservation, prospects, challenges, approaches to Jewish heritage @ online
Dec 7 @ 19:00 – 20:00
Webinar - preservation, prospects, challenges, approaches to Jewish heritage @ online

Join JHE’s Ruth Ellen Gruber; the architect, artist and designer, Natalia Romik; the director of the Okopowa Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, Witold Wrzosiński; and the CEO of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODZ) Piotr Puchta for a wide-ranging Webinar centering on Jewish heritage preservation, future prospects, challenges, and possible approaches.

This Webinar is the third and final Webinar in a series that has been part of the project “Virtual Connections to Material Jewish Heritage in Poland” carried out by FODZ,  aimed at fostering public awareness of synagogues, cemeteries and other Jewish built heritage via digital models and detailed virtual tours of selected buildings.

Please register for the webinar here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_YsMCMndzQ1SbllwVPi0X_A

Click to access the project web site and the virtual tours of selected Jewish historical sites in Kraśnik, Łęczna, ŁancutOlsztyn, OrlaPrzysucha, Sejny, and Zamość

 

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