The village of Milówka, in southern Poland, has published a new, downloadable brochure on its Jewish cemetery, which was founded in 1891. The illustrated brochure is only in Polish. Download a PDF version HERE
If you want to visit Turkey’s glorious historic synagogues, you must plan ahead and be mindful of security concerns, writes Mark I. Pinsky. In an article published several weeks ago in The Forward, he details his visits to centuries-old synagogues in … Continue reading
Alarm has been raised over the condition of the abandoned 18th century Jewish cemetery in Mysłowice, in southern Poland. Virtual Shtetl reports that the Mysłowice town office, the Jewish Religious Community in Katowice, the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage (FODŻ) … Continue reading
A 6 million euro project to restore the Reichenbachstrasse synagogue in Munich has been announced. The synagogue, designed by the architect Gustav Meyerstein and built in 1931 — just two years before Hitler came to power — has fallen … Continue reading
The International Institute for Jewish Genealogy (IIJG) has announced that its Founding Director, Dr. Neville Lamdan, has retired from his position after seven years in the job. In his place, the IIJG Executive Committee decided to create the new positions … Continue reading
A housing estate in Bilgoraj, in southeast Poland, is being constructed as something of a living “shtetl skansen” — or open air shtetl museum, according to a local newspaper. In an article reposted on Virtual Shtetl, Gazetz Wyborcza’s Lublin … Continue reading
Virtual Shtetl reports on efforts to “liberate” a collection of rare, cast-iron Jewish grave markers that have been held for months in the police station in Krzepice, Poland after having been discovered in a local scrap yard. Read the full article … Continue reading
In June 2012, Marla Raucher Osborn recounted how a local man, an avid collector and local historian named Janusz Dąbek, had created a small but impressive museum with a Jewish permanent exhibition in Ulanów, a small town in southeastern Poland between Zamosc and … Continue reading
A new book on the Jewish cemetery in Jaworzno, Poland has been published, reports Virtual Shtetl. The authors are Leszek Hońdo, Dariusz Rozmus and Sławomir Witkowski, who carried out an inventory of the cemetery. The book comprises two parts. The … Continue reading
The Times of Israel runs an article about the work of Michael Lozman, a New York orthodontist, who has led American students on projects to restore Jewish cemeteries in Belarus for more than a decade. He started with a … Continue reading
