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News stories and other publications about FJCP member restoration projects.

The Matzevot Fragments of Treblinka's "Black Road"

Edward Janes and Alan Metnick

Dec 30, 2024

The Matzevot Fragments of Treblinka's "Black Road"
National Heritage marker and nine other boulders installed at Przasnysz cemetery

Ed Janes

Sep 23, 2024

Jewish Cemetery of Przasnysz designated as a historical monument.

National Heritage marker and nine other boulders installed at Przasnysz cemetery
The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland (Polish Studies) by Krzysztof Bielawski

FJCP

Sep 17, 2024

We are happy to announce this impending English language publication

The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland (Polish Studies) by Krzysztof Bielawski
FJCP Goes to Poland

FJCP

Jul 11, 2024

Summer 2024 Travels & Meetups

FJCP Goes to Poland
Bringing a Lost Community Back to Life

Dan Oren

Jan 24, 2023

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

Bringing a Lost Community Back to Life
FODŻ cleaned up the Jewish cemetery in Przasnysz

M. Jablonska

Nov 22, 2022

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
Protecting the Past, Protecting the Future

Dan Oren

Jun 1, 2021

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
Unfinished Business: Restoring Eastern Europe's Desecrated Jewish Cemeteries

Linda Topping Streitfeld

Dec 1, 2020

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
Locals Team Up to Preserve Jewish Cemeteries in Poland

Jesse Bernstein

Aug 27, 2020

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
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.

One Berkeley man’s quest to save Poland’s 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.

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