
News
News stories and other publications about FJCP member restoration projects.
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.
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.
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.
Aug 16, 2017