Monika Krawczyk, CEO of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODZ) reports the welcome news that FODZ’s project to restore the two-synagogue complex in Krasnik, in southeast Poland near Lublin, has just received a grant of nearly $2 … continue reading →
The surviving fragment of the oldest gravestone found in the Jewish cemetery in Oswięcim, the town where the Auschwitz death camp is located, has been cleaned and preserved by Margrit Borman, a conservator at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, writes Tomasz … continue reading →
Polychrome frescoes have been discovered in the historic synagogue in Bobowa, Poland, during restoration being carried out this autumn. Restoration work on the discovered paintings will continue into next spring. The discovery was reported in Virtual Shtetl, citing a report … continue reading →
Following up on a post we ran November 1, the Polish edition of Forbes Magazine has issued an apology for three articles that had accused the leaders of Poland’s organized Jewish community of mismanagement and financial malfeasance in the restitution … continue reading →
In the In Focus section, we are pleased to publish the paper From “Atlantis” to …? The past and present of Jewish Krakow in the second decade of the new millennium by Dr. Monika Murzyn-Kupisz, which she presented in the session … continue reading →
