The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews has granted its 2019 Polin award to Natalia Bartczak, who has cared for the Jewish cemetery in Wińsko, in western Poland, for 16 years — starting when she was just 13. … continue reading →
Our new Have Your Say is by Ida Shenderovich, an educator and manager of social and charity projects at the Jewish Community of Mogilev, Belarus. She writes that the preservation of the heritage and collective memory of the Jewish community … continue reading →
In Oświęcim, the town in southern Poland where the Nazis built the Auschwitz death camp, a memorial park has been opened on the site of the destroyed Great Synagogue to honor the town’s once-thriving pre-WW2 Jewish community. The Great Synagogue … continue reading →
Warmest congratulations to the Dutch curator and museum manager Hetty Berg, who has been appointed the new Director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Berg, currently the chief curator and museum manager of the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam, will … continue reading →
A second project spearheaded by the Polish Olympic athlete Dariusz Popiela has seen the restoration of a Jewish cemetery and placement of a memorial to its destroyed Jewish community. The memorial at the restored Jewish cemetery in Grybów, in southern … continue reading →
