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Poland: Mazel tov to recipients of awards to Jewish heritage activists — Tomasz Kuncewicz, the director of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation in Oświęcim, Prof. Andrzej Żbikowski, and the “Świętokrzyski Shtetl” Educational and Museum Center in the small town of Chmielnik

Mazel tov to the recipients of two awards honoring Jewish heritage activists in Poland: Tomasz Kuncewicz, the director of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation in Oświęcim, the town in southern Poland where the Nazis built the Auschwitz death camp, and … continue reading →

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HUNGARY UPDATE: Restoration of the Karcag synagogue facade wins a “peoples choice” prize

Mazel tov! The recent restoration of the synagogue in Karcag has won a sort of “people’s choice” award — second place in the public vote in its category in the “Baumit Life Challenge” award, a prize sponsored  by the Baumit … continue reading →

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Romania: Timisoara’s long-derelict Fabric Synagogue (designed by Lipot Baumhorn) is on the 2022 World Monuments Fund Watch list of world heritage at risk

Ark in the Fabric synagogue, Timisoara, showing the organ behind and above it. Photo © Anna Szentgyörgyi

The long-derelict Fabric Synagogue — designed by Lipot Baumhorn —  and other Jewish heritage in Timisoara, Romania are on the 2022  World Monuments Watch: a list compiled by the World Monuments Fund of 25 heritage sites around the world deemed … continue reading →

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