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News stories and other publications about FJCP member restoration projects.
One Berkeley man’s quest to save Poland’s Jewish cemeteries
Maya Mirsky
Aug 26, 2020
Bill Brostoff spent his working life navigating bureaucracy in the Army Corps of Engineers. Now the 70-year-old is using that expertise for a new purpose: helping descendants of Polish Jews work with officials in Poland to restore abandoned, often decrepit Jewish cemeteries.
Restoration Trip to Polish Cemetery Experience of a Lifetime for Local Man
Jon Marks
Aug 16, 2017
A couple of years ago, Brian Wartell started looking for Jewish cemeteries in [Northeast Poland]. Many had been destroyed, but there was one in Przerośl that was still in existence, though in very rough shape. Wartell decided to make that cemetery’s restoration his goal.
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