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News stories and other publications about FJCP member restoration projects.

FJCP Goes to Poland

Eight members of FJCP will travel together in Poland to support each other’s ongoing and proposed restoration projects.

FJCP Goes to Poland

Aug 1, 2023

Bringing a Lost Community Back to Life

World Jewish Restitution Organization

WJRO’s #MyPropertyStory campaign encourages Holocaust survivors and their families to share their personal stories.

Bringing a Lost Community Back to Life

Jan 24, 2023

FODŻ cleaned up the Jewish cemetery in Przasnysz

The Infoprzasnysz

Thanks to the activities of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage, last week the work of cleaning up the area of the cemetery at ul. Leszno in Przasnysz was completed.

FODŻ cleaned up the Jewish cemetery in Przasnysz

Nov 22, 2022

Protecting the Past, Protecting the Future

Shabtai.tv

When Soviet domination of Poland ended 30 years ago and it became possible for ordinary westerners to travel there, I convinced my mother to take me on a "roots" trip back to her land of birth.

Protecting the Past, Protecting the Future

Jun 1, 2021

Unfinished Business: Restoring Eastern Europe's Desecrated Jewish Cemeteries

B’nai B’rith

Last year, workers building a solar farm on an open field in Poland hit a snag.

Unfinished Business: Restoring Eastern Europe's Desecrated Jewish Cemeteries

Dec 1, 2020

Locals Team Up to Preserve Jewish Cemeteries in Poland

Philadelphia Jewish Exponent

What seems, at first blush, to be the story of one man and the salvation of a crumbling Jewish cemetery is actually, more than anything, a story about preservation and a collective rebuke to the Final Solution.

Locals Team Up to Preserve Jewish Cemeteries in Poland

Aug 27, 2020

One Berkeley man’s quest to save Poland’s Jewish cemeteries

The Jewish News of Northern California

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.

One Berkeley man’s quest to save Poland’s Jewish cemeteries

Aug 26, 2020

Restoration Trip to Polish Cemetery Experience of a Lifetime for Local Man

Philadelphia Jewish Exponent

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.

Restoration Trip to Polish Cemetery Experience of a Lifetime for Local Man

Aug 16, 2017

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