Mieczysław Jędruszczak, who worked for decades to protect and preserve the surviving remnants of the Warsaw Ghetto wall, has died at the age of 94. A veteran of Poland’s World War II underground Home Army who was also interned in a … continue reading →
The town of Grodzisk Mazowiecki in central Poland has taken steps to preserve its Jewish cemetery from property development and has ordered clean-up of the site to begin. Mayor Grzegorz Benedykciński was quoted by the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper as saying there … continue reading →
January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, is marked in many countries as the international Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is an occasion for commemorative ceremonies, educational programs, and other initiatives. Monuments and memorials are also dedicated. This year … continue reading →
Experts gathered in Kiev in mid-December for a first meeting to discuss plans to establish a Holocaust museum in the empty and dilapidated ceremonial hall at the vast Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), Ukraine. “The idea is to restore it and create a … continue reading →
The opening isn’t until February, but we want to note already what looks like an extraordinary upcoming exhibition at the POLIN museum in Warsaw that enlarges on a theme we have dealt with several times here on JHE — how artists … continue reading →
