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Obit: Feliks Wolf Karpman, cared for Jewish cemetery in Góra Kalwaria, Poland

Feliks (Wolf) Karpman, who long took care of the Jewish cemetery in Góra Kalwaria, Poland, has died, aged 87. Karpman, who was born on November 29, 1926, was one of the few Jews from the town to survive the Holocaust … continue reading →

Death of Jakovas Bunka

We mourn the death of a remarkable man, Jakovas (Yaakov) Bunka (Yankl or Yosl Bunk), a renowned folk-style wood-sculptor, World War II hero and passionate keeper of the Jewish flame in his native town, Plunge, Lithuania, who died July 30 at the age … continue reading →

Polish Holocaust Historian Robert Kuwałek RIP

We are sad to report news of the premature and sudden death of Robert Kuwałek, one of Poland’s foremost historians of the Holocaust and Jewish heritage in southeastern Poland and what is now western Ukraine. Kuwałek, 47, died while he … continue reading →