The surviving fragment of the oldest gravestone found in the Jewish cemetery in Oswięcim, the town where the Auschwitz death camp is located, has been cleaned and preserved by Margrit Borman, a conservator at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, writes Tomasz … continue reading →
The Canadian Jewish News highlights a Jewish cemetery restoration project in the Russian town of Mysovsk or Mysovaya, now called Babushkin, on the southern shore of Lake Baikal. Today a stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway, the town was until … continue reading →
Following up on a post we ran November 1, the Polish edition of Forbes Magazine has issued an apology for three articles that had accused the leaders of Poland’s organized Jewish community of mismanagement and financial malfeasance in the restitution … continue reading →
Piotr Kadlcik, the president of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland, has refuted accusations of corruption and mismanagement in the restitution and administration of pre-war Jewish communal property. Kadlcik issued a statement Tuesday in response to allegations … continue reading →
With Jewish genealogy a growth industry, and travel to eastern European eased, more and more people are “returning” (actually going for the first time) to the shtetls that their ancestors were often happy — or forced — to leave. The … continue reading →
