Historian and journalist Marian Turski, Chairman of the Council for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, has been awarded the French National Order of the Legion of Honor. Turski, 86, survived the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz and … continue reading →
A well-preserved mikvah pool has been discovered in Zamosc, Poland. According an article in Gazeta newspaper and quoted by Virtual Shtetl, it was discovered in the basement of the former late 19th-century Jewish bath house, during renovation work on … continue reading →
The Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie, near Bialystok in northeastern Poland, was vandalized the night of March 18. Monika Krawczyk, the CEO of FODZ, the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, reports that police are investigating … continue reading →
After years of neglect, the dilapidated 19th-century synagogue building in the town of Koronowo in north-central Poland may be preserved and restored for use as a cultural center. In the local newspaper Gazeta Pomorska, Adam Lewandowski writes that the … continue reading →
A dilapidated small Jewish prayer house in the town of Kielce is to be moved from its current position in the back yard of a tenement house to nearby the Jewish cemetery in order to rescue it from falling … continue reading →
