Dr. Samuel D. Gruber spoke in Burlington, Vermont on Nov. 9 and 10 about the town’s “Lost Shul Mural” — a complex, brightly color mural, painted in 1910 by the Lithuanian immigrant Ben Zion Black, that once adorned the … continue reading →
The neo-Gothic red-brick Ceremonial Hall at the Jewish cemetery in Gliwice, Poland will be restored and turned into a museum of Jewish history in upper Silesia. The large structure was built in 1903 and designed by the Vienna-based Jewish … continue reading →
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 →
