My personal invitation for all those willing to learn more about Jewish genealogy research in Poland. Like in the last years we’re meeting during workshops held in English and Polish and individual consultations. Half of the Jews... Read more
Looking for uncle Aron’s house Brzeziny is a small place in central Poland. In spite of its microscopic size, for many years it had been the greatest tailoring center in the country. Almost all of the local tailors were of Jewish origin and the... Read more
The Nazi German Army entered the town on the first days of war, in September 1939. It had been decided that Brzeziny, together with the western part of Poland, would be incorporated to the Third Reich, whereas the areas east of the town were to... Read more
There is hard to estimate the precise number of Shoah survivors from Brzeziny. The list below shows ONLY the names of people who survived the war and then moved to former German Lower Silesia that became a part of People’s Republic of Poland... Read more
Częstochowa, a small city in central Poland, has one of the longest lists of Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland. Thanks to the activities of World Society of Czestochowa Jews, the story of its Judaic population is very well documented. But what... Read more
With the pleasantly warm and sunny month of May, our genealogical journey to Galicia was painted verdant green and sky-blue. This time I went on the trip with David and Eleanor from the US. The preparations themselves took a few months, during which... Read more
In 1983, my American friend, Harry Birnholz came for a tour to communist Poland. He payed a visit to his father’s family town, Myszkow (yiddish Mishkov ). One of the places he visited was a studio of a local photographer, Mr Bożek, who turned... Read more
Like many other Polish towns Będzin seems to be gazing nostalgically into the past. What used to be an important commercial centre in one of the largest industrial districts of the tsarist Russia is now an exceedingly run-down and unsightly witness... Read more
Jędrzejów, a town in Kielce region, is usually linked with the Cistercian abbey dating back to the XII century and the Clock Museum boasting one the richest collections in the world. It does not mean though that there was no Jewish population... Read more
Dr Mieczysław Siudziński has been tracing Jewish history of Dąbrowa Tarnowska for many decades. Mr Siudziński recalls the names of all his Jewish neighbours Meeting of craftsmen guild in Dąbrowa Tarnowska, 1950ties?, first on the... Read more
Photos from my last visit to Częstochowa. On the hot summer days we were tracing the family places of Jewish families of Epstein and Działoszyński that once lived there. Skyline of Częstochowa – dominated by churches and closed industrial... Read more
Small collection of prewar photos of the town and surroundings. Thanks to the courtesy of Muzeum Okręgowe in Limanowa Inn run by the Szmidt family, located on the way to Kasinka Mała. Burnt down at the beginning of WWII. he Bakery of Zins family,... Read more
Several photos from my last tour of Wolbrom [Yid. Volbrom] and Olkusz [Elkish] – two industrial towns located along the important Dąbrowa-Dęblin railway line, before the war known for their thriving, long-established Jewish communities.... Read more
Several photos from my last tour of Wolbrom [Yid. Volbrom] and Olkusz [Elkish] – two industrial towns located along the important Dąbrowa-Dęblin railway line, before the war known for their thriving, long-established Jewish communities.... Read more