At the beginning of May and at the beginning of August we published our first and second round-ups for 2024, showcasing some of the many Jewish cemetery clean-up initiatives taking place this spring and summer in various European countries. Here’s a … continue reading →
Mazel tov to JHE friend Prof. Marcin Wodziński, recipient of a prestigious 2024 Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) Award, considered the most important scientific distinction in Poland. Wodziński, who heads the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of … continue reading →
Mazel tov to Ewa Teleżyńska-Sawicka and Paweł Sawicki, who have won the 2024 POLIN award, granted annually by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw to people “actively working to protect the memory of the history … continue reading →
The Oshpitzin Jewish Museum in Oświęcim, the town in southern Poland where the Nazis built the Auschwitz death camp, has completed another element in its complex of memorial sites in the city — transforming a Nazi bunker in the Jewish … continue reading →
Archaeologists have begun research at the site of the destroyed Goldberg synagogue in Otwock, near Warsaw, where significant remnants of the building — the town’s main synagogue before WW2 — were discovered this past summer during construction of a new … continue reading →
