The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has launched an important new online resource on Jews and Jewish life in pre-Holocaust Poland: the YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland. The vast online collection, which includes digitized manuscripts, posters, photographs, … continue reading →
New technology — ground-penetrating radar — is being used to search for the graves of tzaddikim on the site of a destroyed Jewish cemetery in Mielec, Poland, where for the past few years Chasidim have been trying to identify the … continue reading →
The former synagogue in Sieradz, Poland was seriously damaged by fire that broke out Thursday night (April 17) and blazed until nearly dawn on Friday before firefighters managed to put it out. Pictures published on the nazse.fm news site … continue reading →
Work will begin in June to restore the historic (but devastated) Bródno Jewish cemetery in Warsaw’s Praga district, in what Virtual Shtetl describes as “one of the largest projects of the Jewish Religious Community in Warsaw.” According to the … continue reading →
Polish volunteers have helped save the Jewish cemetery in the Polish town of Dobrzyn nad Wisla, which was flooded when the Vistula (Wisla) river overflowed its banks, according to accounts in Israel Hayom and Arutz Sheva. The flooding had disturbed graves … continue reading →
