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FJCP Goes to Poland

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

Bringing a Lost Community Back to Life

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

FODŻ cleaned up the Jewish cemetery in Przasnysz

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.

Protecting the Past, Protecting the Future

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.

Unfinished Business: Restoring Eastern Europe's Desecrated Jewish Cemeteries

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

Locals Team Up to Preserve Jewish Cemeteries in Poland

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.

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

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

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.