On 8th of November the students of Middle School particpating in the "To Bring Back Memory" program have presented a school play dedicated to the memory of Staszów Jews in local Regional Museum. The program consisted of Jewish songs and dances, learned by the girls during the last year's presentation of the program in the Nozyk Synagogue in Warsaw. more »
Like many similar towns in pre-war Poland, Łęczna was a mosaic of cultures and religions. The Poles were living mostly on the town borders, the Jews have chosen the squares and the followers of the Orthodox religion grouped in the small villages such as Dratów, or Kolonia Dratów. The coexistence of the three different cultures was smooth and peaceful. Jews and Poles were neighbors on the streets adjacent to the squares: Bożniczna, or Lubelska. The pictures present the streets: Bożniczna, Krasnystawska and Stodolna around 1930. On the last picture you may see the meeting of the town population; probably a celebration of the crop over. Among the honorary guests we may see Feliks Starzyński, deputy parliament, on the right, and on the left stands the rabbi of Łęczyca.
On the first photo, dating back to around 1950, an anonymous photographer has pictured the northern side of the Synagogue in Łęczna. Nowadays the building hosts the Regional Museum. The other pictures present the interior of the Synagogue.
Once they lived in Szydłowiec- today they remain in our memory thanks to the pictures.
Looking through them we wonder: what were they dreaming of? What did they like to do? Did they like going to school, who they wanted to be in the future? We add history to those few pictures, the persons present on them become heroes of our stories, stories about a happy childhood.
