Stanley Diamond, a leading figure in the Jewish genealogy world and co-founder and executive director of the non-profit, online database JRI (Jewish Records Indexing)-Poland, passed away December 18 in Montreal. He was 91. Founded in 1995, JRI-Poland has grown to … continue reading →
We were saddened to learn of the death last month of Dr. Michael Lozman, who worked for years to preserve Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe and created a project to build a Holocaust memorial in upstate New York. Lozman, whom … continue reading →
We are saddened by the death of the New York-based businessman and philanthropist Sigmund (Zygmunt) Rolat, a key figure in the post-communist revival of Jewish life and heritage in Poland, who has passed away aged 93. A Holocaust survivor from … continue reading →
The death of the renowned American artist Frank Stella leads us to recall the major exhibition of his work in 2016, inspired by the destroyed wooden synagogues of Eastern Europe. Stella died Saturday at his home in New York, aged … continue reading →
Herman Storick, an American descendant of Polish Jews who worked to save the Jewish cemetery in his ancestral village in northern Poland, has died, aged 94. He lived for many years in Larchmont, NY, and had recently moved to Georgia. … continue reading →
