My wife and I hired Jakub Czupryński of guide-poland.com to not only research our ancestors, but to give us a guided tour once research was completed. We were amazing at how far back Jakub and his team were able to trace our... Read more
Marshall Jay Kaplan, TV producer & director
I spent a remarkable day with Jakub, exploring two small villages near Ilza ( Radom province ) in the hopes of finding information about my ancestors and their lives. Jakub is a consummate professional with excellent English who is knowledgeable... Read more
Shelley Tepperman, writer, director - Montreal, Canada
Jakub is everything we had hoped for in a guide and genealogist: smart, steeped in history, thorough and an absolute pleasure to spend time with. He helped my Canadian family trace back our roots in Central Poland seven generations. Finding the... Read more
Jeffrey Kofman, television news correspondent, London
It is a pleasure to recommend Jakub Czuprynski, an outstanding researcher and guide. He traced my ancestors and their wanderings through Polish towns back to the 18th century with meticulous research. He then guided my brother, my son and myself in... Read more
Avi Kribus, Professor of Engineering at Tel Aviv University, Israel
I have been working on a long term (nearly 6 years ) project on my father who survived eight Nazi forced labor camps. Jakub Czuprynski researched, designed and planned a way for me to tour my father’s work camps in the best possible use of time. I... Read more
Hannah Kozak, photographer, writer, film maker, 2015.
Jakub Czuprynski helped me organise a party in Krakow for 350 people coming from all over the world… ! He is very efficient but easy going and fun and can adapt quickly to any change of plans. He is quick to understand what people need and want... Read more
Princess Julia Lubomirska, Belgium
„Jacob has enormous passion for helping people to learn more about their family histories. His enthusiasm for genealogical research and dedication to his clients interests make him an enormous asset. His great interest in the history of his... Read more
David and Eleanor De Vries, documentary filmmakers, ecsdevries@gmail.com
”In October 2011, my sister and I and our husbands were fortunate enough to have Jakub as our guide on a tour of Southeastern Poland. (…) Jakub did a lot of background research before we arrived, often enlisting the help of local historians to... Read more
Khristin Schachtschneider, USA
„In early May 2011 I was fortunate to be part of a private tour of five people which was led by Jakub Czuprynski. We visited some small towns near Czestochowa, where our Jewish family had lived before World War II and then Krakow. Before we met... Read more
Pauline Walsh, Toronto, Canada
„For a trip to southern Poland I highly recommend our guide, Jakub Czuprynski, who took, my husband and I, and three cousins through six small towns near Czestochowa the first part of May, 2011. Various parts of my father’s family had lived in... Read more
Cheryl Tallan, c.tallan@utoronto.ca
„My husband, myself and two friends actually met with Jacub in September 2010. My husbands’ father was from a small town called Brzeziny near Łódź and we wanted to see the city and possibly find out what happened to the Jewish family that had... Read more
Robin and Gene Fox, LA, United States
„I did a tour with Insiders to visit the places of my grandparents in Poland ( in the former part of Germany called Schlesien ). I met Jakob as I did a weekend trip to Krakow and I really enjoyed the city tour he did. So I asked him again for a... Read more
Christian Erb, Nordrhein-Westfallen, Germany
„For a number of years I had wished to trace my fathers family history in Poland/Ukraine, but the language barrier meant this was impossible for me. Insiders undertook some initial research that culminated in a trip across the South of Poland and... Read more
S. Paliwoda, England
„In September of 2006, my wife and I came to Europe on a tour of southern Poland. Since I am of Polish descent, I also brought along my family tree with the faint hope of finding some history of my ancestors. Jakub Czuprynski was our guide and... Read more
Brian Pelz, Canada
„Being a guide is a very difficult job. On the one hand the client wants to discover for himself and not feel that he is being led all the time. On the other hand the client wants quality information to enrich his experience. Jakub has the ability... Read more
Richard Jephcott, England