We are happy to inform you that the POLIN - Polish Jews Heritage web portal www.polin.org.pl contains already 6000 pictures. You can also find informations concerning the history of Jews in over more »

We invite you to visit 'The Heritage' section, where you can now find brochures dedicated to the history of the Jews in 10 localities of the Chassidic Route: Chelm, Jaroslaw, more »

We cordially invite you to visit POLIN- Polish Jews Heritage web portal www.polin.org.pl and browse through new galleries and informations concerning Jewish culture monuments in Gorlice, Gorzow Wielkopolski, Jodlowa, Praszka, more »

We cordially invite you to visit POLIN- Polish Jews Heritage web portal www.polin.org.pl where the pictures of the unique polychromed matzevot found during the roadworks in Radom were just uploaded. More information about more »

Thanks to the efforts of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland the former boundaries of the Jewish cemetery in Labiszyn (kujawsko-pomorskie province) were retraced. The cemetery was established in the late 17th century. According to a book published by Rabbi Heppner more »

We inform you that the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland cleaned up the Jewish cemetery in Sochaczew (mazowieckie province). On its grounds stands the ohel of the local more »

Cooperating within the frames of the Chassidic Route Project, the Franciscan Monks of Sanok and the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland invite you for the 2nd installment of the ecumenical and interreligional more »

On July 18, 2008 the Jewish dance workshop took place in Sieniawa (podkarpackie province), during the Sieniawa Days. The workshops, led by an animator of the Snunit Dance Group, were organized by the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland in cooperation with the town more »

We cordially invite you to visit POLIN- Polish Jews Heritage web portal www.polin.org.pl and browse through new galleries and informations concerning Jewish culture monuments in Gebice, Inowroclaw, Knyszyn, Koronowo, Lubliniec, more »

Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland applied to the Regional Monument Protection Department in Torun for protection of the Jewish tombstones found during the roadworks in Lubraniec (kujawsko-pomorskie province). The matzevot, which are to be transported to the Jewish more »

During the building works carried out in Radom, the workers found underground a number of richly polychromed matzevot. For a first time in many years such a large number of tombstones with perfectly preserved colours was found in Poland; an estimated number of tombstones in more »

Between July 4-6, during the Open'er Music Festival in Gdynia, the Polish Jewish Youth Organization (ZOOM) was promoting civic activity and actions for tolerance at its stand in the NGO zone. The ZOOM stand was also informing about activities of the Foundation for the more »

On July 10, 2008, a ceremony of unveiling of a memorial tablet commemorating the deportation of the Jews from Slupsk to the Auschwitz concentration camp took place in Slupsk at Deotymy 15a St. The building at Deotymy St., which today hosts a Middle School, was a Nazi transit more »

We regretfully report another act of vandalism, that took place at the Jewish cemetery in Koronowo (kujawsko-pomorskie province). Unknown perpetrators destroyed one of the matzevot. The case was reported to the authorities by the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland. more »

We are happy to inform you that another, 21st town joined the Chassidic Route. We invite you to visit the website describing the Jewish Heritage of Leczna on our POLIN - Polish Jews Heritage web portal www.polin.org.pl more »

Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland is taking efforts to protect the grounds of the Jewish cemetery in Sepolno Krajenskie (kujawsko-pomorskie province) from the ongoing devastation. A letter was sent to the Mayor of the town asking to block the passage to the cemetery, more »

We are happy to inform you that a new annual report of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland is currently available online.

We cordially invite you to visit POLIN- Polish Jews Heritage web portal www.polin.org.pl and browse through new galleries and informations concerning Jewish culture monuments in Bojanowo, Limanowa, Lublin, Olesno, more »

On July 6, 2008, the sixth March in Memory of the Ghetto took place in Rzeszow. It begun at the Rzeszow Staroniwa train station, from where the local Jews were transported to the Belzec death camp. The event was organized by the friends of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish more »