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9.09.2024 marks the Jahrzeit of those who perished in the mass execution at Pańskie on 19.08.1942. A jahrzeit is an anniversary of a death in Jewish tradition; we will soon learn more about this, we plan to...
This year we organize the anniversary celebration on Sunday, 18.08.2024. We preparated three different events: At 12 noon, a conference on the Holocaust in the region is scheduled to take place at the Municipal...
On 23.06.2024 at the Galicia Jewish Museum, a ceremony was held to present "Preserving Memory" awards to individuals and institutions of merit in the protection of our country's Jewish heritage. The "Preserving...
On 9.06.2024 a group of residents of our city went with us on a tour of the Jewish traces of Krakow, among which are also our own, Mszana's. First of all, in the cemetery on Miodowa Street, where the first two...
On 24.05.2024, the Municipal Library in Mszana Dolna hosted a meeting with a Warsaw actress, Ms Alina Świdowska, daughter of Adina Blady-Szwajger, a legendary doctor from the Warsaw Ghetto. This was the second...
From 3.-7.06.2024, a representation of Shtetl Mszana Dolna was in Norway, at the Utøya Learning Center for a study visit for activists from organizations involved in dialogue, commemoration, anti-discrimination....
The 27th of January, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Death Camp, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In Mszana Dolna, the memory of the Victims was commemorated on Friday, 26.01.2024, at...
January 17 is the Day of Judaism in Poland. We conducted workshops with 3 groups of young people, who learned the basic concepts of the Jewish religion and culture and elements of the celebration of Shabbat
A local amateur photograph, Robert Łabuz shared his works taken at the Jewish cemetery in Mszana Dolna — thank you!
In the face of the armed attack on the State of Israel by Hamas terrorists, we express our solidarity with the Israeli people, including the descendants of the Jews of Mszana Dolna, and assure them of our support....
On 26.07.2023, in the hospitable premises of the Mszana Dolna Town Hall, a writing workshop with Patrycja Dołowy was held. Patrycja Dołowy, who has a PhD in natural sciences, is a writer, multimedia artist,...
We would like to invite you for our next project meeting, titled intriguingly "The Jerusalem Syndrome: From Enchantment to Madness.". Rachela, our young psychologist and doctoral student, will talk about this...
We have some sad news: the oldest living descendant of the Jews from Mszana Dolna, Golda/Jeana Chapnick, has died at the age of 99. She was the granddaughter of Shulem Geller, who owned a wooden sole factory and 3...
We are delighted to announce that we are starting the second edition of the "The story of the bicultural, pre-war Mszana Dolna"! We would like to remind you that last year, as many as 17 meetings were held for the...
Our educational project shows the coexistence of two faiths and cultures, the Christians and the Jews, in the prewar Mszana Dolna. The two groups lived side by side, fusing with and inspiring each other, creating a...
Our most recent project to commemorate the actual full names of all the Shoah victims in Mszana Dolna is taking real shape! The verification of the list of those murdered in the Pańskie area on 19 August 1942 and...
81. years ago, in the so-called Leszczyny area of Ogrodowa Street, twenty-some young people from the city's Jewish community were shot dead. Among them were: Wanda Gutter originally from Krakow, Mania Ginsberg from...
Every person deserves to have their name, surname, and age inscribed on his grave. Even, or perhaps especially, if it is a mass grave. Until now, nearly 900 Victims of the largest murder of Jewish people (among...
On December 5, on the occasion of the International Volunteer Day, the Volunteer Gala "Together for Heritage" took place in Kino Kultura in Warsaw. This program is related to grant subsidies from the National...
The great value of our work is the opportunity to meet with young people to acquaint the younger generation with the bicultural history of our city. Ms. Kasia Mielnikiewicz invited us to two groups, grades VII and...
November 1 and 2 are the days of remembrance for the dead in Poland. Jewish tradition does not know a separate Day of the Dead - they are remembered on yorcayt, or anniversaries of death, or on the occasion of...
The promotion of our monograph about the Jewish cemetery took place on 20.10.2022 in the Municipal Library in Mszana Dolna. The publication crowned the project "The Story of the Jewish Cemetery in Mszana Dolna",...
"And their memory shall not cease among their descendants"
On 21-22.08.2022, celebrations were held in our town to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Holocaust, the most tragic act of which took place in Mszana Dolna on 19.08.1942 (the 6th elul according to Jewish...
Another project of our Shtetl Mszana Dolna Foundation. "Subsidized under the program of the National Heritage Institute - Together for Heritage".
On the 12th of August 2022, the Municipal Library in Mszana Dolna held another meeting within the framework of our project "Story of the bicultural, pre-war Mszana Dolna". A week before the 80th Anniversary of the...
"The Jewish religion is not an external reality vis-à-vis Christianity, but something internal; our attitude toward it is different than toward any other religion," John Paul II taught. "Jesus is a Jew and will be...
Amsane Rebbe at a memorial event for his great grandfather Rabbi Nathan David Holländer.
After two years of break caused by the coronavirus pandemic, on 10-12.06.2022 in Wiązowna near Warsaw a meeting of people involved in preserving Jewish heritage of Poland, documenting and educating about Jewish...
On the 3th of June in the Mszana Dolna Municipal Library we told the inhabitants about Jewish families who once lived in Mszana Dolna - there were about one hundred of them! We recalled their contribution to the...
On May 25th, 2022, a lecture and Jewish paper cutting workshops took place in the hospitable surroundings of the Mszana Dolna Municipal Library. The workshops were carried out by Ms. Anna Wencel from the Galicia...
On May 17th, 202 we had the pleasure of telling the history of Mszana and the surrounding area Jews to 8th grade students from Mszana Górna. We would like to thank Mrs. Marta Kubies and Mr. Jarosław Mazur for...
On 27.04.2022 after sunset, the Day of Remembrance - Yom Ha Shoah - began. We visited all three resting places of Holocaust Victims in Mszana Dolna, lighting the lights of remembrance, reciting psalms and...
On 28.04.2022 in the Municipal Library in Mszana Dolna a meeting with Jolanta Kruszniewska, a PhD student of the Institute of Jewish Studies of the Jagiellonian University took place. This was the third event in...
On 22.04.2022 in the Municipal Library in Mszana Dolna a meeting with well-known writer Patrycja Dołowy took place. The meeting was organized by us as a part of the project "The story of bi-cultural, pre-war...
On 11.04.2022 in the Town Library we inaugurated our project "A Tale of the Bicultural, Pre-War Mszana Dolna" with a meeting about bonds between Christianity and Judaism on the example of memories of...
In connection with the ongoing war in Ukraine, we contributed to the humanitarian aid for the victims of Russian aggression - together with the "Caritas" volunteers we collected a full truckload of gifts which were...
The founder and president of our Foundation, Urszula Antosz-Rekucka, received an honourable mention award in the prestigious, nationwide Polin 2021 Award competition. The POLIN Award, established by the Museum of...
The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews has announced the shortlist for this year’s POLIN Award. The jury selected 6 nominees from among over a hundred candidates and 3 of them are members of our Leaders...
As every year, we prepared a celebration of the anniversary of the most tragic day in the history of Mszana Dolna, when within a few hours Nazis murdered almost the entire Jewish community of our town. At least 881...
According to the Jewish calendar it happened on Elul 6th, according to the Roman calendar - on August 19th. On that day, in 1942, at the Pańskie in Mszana Dolna, the Germans murdered practically the entire Jewish...
As every year, on January 27 – the International Holocaust Remembrance Day – we lit the lights of remembrance at the mass graves of Jews in Mszana Dolna: at Ogrodowa street where the victims from May 1, 1942...
On the Day of the Remembrance for the Victims and Heroes of the Holocaust, celebrated on the anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (according to the Jewish calendar, state ceremonies are held in...
On April 11, 2021, Gaya the daughter of Shiri Rosenberg and Roee Schlisenberg, granddaughter of the Szoszana and Yehuda Rosenberg, and great-granddaughter of the rescued Golda Berger, great-great-granddaughter of...
For the sake of our actions of protecting the memory, educating and taking care for places of martyrdom, being more effective, we established the Sztetl Mszana Dolna Foundation. It was entered in the Register of...
When it became possible and the weather had improved, at the turn of May and June we started cleaning up the matzevot in the Jewish cemetery to decipher them. We mowed some grass, collected rubbish and branches,...
During the mass execution of Jews in Mszana Dolna on August 19, 1942. 171 children under 10 and another 167 adolescents were murdered. With a group of young people, we decided to commemorate their memory on the...
At the Jewish cemetery in Mszana Dolna, there are buried at least several dozen victims killed during the entire period of World War II - from autumn 1939. until the end of the occupation. These are, among others,...
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The work with youths is of key importance for our activities. They are the future, and a lot depends on their upbringing in the spirit of respect and dialogue. That is why we take young people on the trail of the...
Lea Weissberger has died. She was married to Yehuda, son of Samuel Weissberger. The last survivor of the Holocaust in this family. תנצבה
As you know, cataloging the Jewish cemetery is primarily the work of Jola Kruszniewska, a Judaist, PhD student at the Jagiellonian University. She decipher and describes every matzeva, creates an index of...
On September 3-5, 2021, a regional meeting of Leaders of Dialogue was held. We are honored to be part of this noble group. Forum for Dialogue is the largest and oldest Polish non-governmental organization...
On 19.08.2022. there will be the 80th anniversary of the Holocaust of Jews from Mszana. The monument on Pańskie Street, erected by the son of one of the Victims, is deteriorating, cracking, and fragments of the...
On 11-12.10.2021 we took part in the "Academy of Remembrance Guardians", a series of cultural and educational activities for local activists, representatives of informal groups and non-governmental organizations,...
For several years now, Krakow has been running the Ecumenical Biblical Marathon, crowning the Krakow Ecumenical Bible Days. We decided to participate, because apart from caring for Christian-Jewish dialogue and...
The first days of November are the traditional time of remembrance of the dead in Poland. We visited all the resting places of our Jewish fellow citizens: the old Jewish cemetery at Zakopiańska street, mass graves...
Wonderful news: due to efforts of our team, especially our Vice-President, Marek Rekucki, we received a grant of PLN 7,000 from Stowarzyszenie Żydowski Instytut Historyczny (the Association of the Jewish...
For several years, we have been participating in the international project "Crocus" with young people from high schools in Mszana. The project is aimed at commemorating 1.5 million children-victims of the Holocaust...
As a result of participation in the Academy of Remembrance Guardians, we have prepared our original project to familiarize the local community with the figures of the Righteous Among the Nations, Stefania and...
We want to share a great joy with you: on December 29, 2021, Devorah/Dora, a great-great-granddaughter of the oldest survivor from Mszana Dolna, Dora Appel, née Zins, was born,. She is the daughter of the eldest...
On January 18, 2022, we had the joy of hosting Avraham Taylor, great-great-grandson of Amalia and Dawid Rebhun, who once lived in Mszana Dolna, running a shop and a flour and groats warehouse. Unfortunately, they...
#WeRemember!
We wrote in May about Alan Metnick's visit to our town. We showed him around the Jewish traces, he was especially interested in the memorials and the Jewish cemetery. Today, we are sharing a photo report from that...
In front of the shopping center in our town, an exhibition dedicated to the memory of Mszana Jews can be seen from today. Our Shtetl Mszana Dolna Foundation has thus inaugurated a series of events related to the...
We were honored to be invited as panelists, at the Galicia Jewish Museum's project in Krakow, "Hannah," which included a seminar for teachers from all over Poland. To those already involved or wishing to become...
Exactly 80 years after the horrific execution of Jews on Pansky, on 19.08.2022 descendants of the only survivor of the Rotkopf Jewish family visited Mszana. We met with them at the renovated monument to the Victims...
On 2/12/2022 the last meeting of the year was held at the City Library, dedicated to the Christian and Jewish contexts in the works of two great bards of Jewish origin, fascinated by the figure of Jesus and...
On 2.12.2022 we completed our educational project "A story of pre-war bicultural Mszana Dolna". It lasted less than 8 months, and included 11 meetings at the Municipal Library. The first, on 11.04.2022, just...
Our Foundation once again joined in helping the residents of Ukraine, tormented by the terrible war. On 17.12.2022, our vice-president with our friend Mr. Tomasz, who provided his car, took a shipment of food and...
In the past, we didn't dare even dream about it. Today we have a ready program of restoration work, approved by the Regional Office for Historic Preservation. It remains - a bagatelle - to get funding. The first...
On 20.12.2022 we were visited by Steven D. Reece. Coming from the USA, Steven is a Baptist pastor who has been caring for Jewish cemeteries in Poland for almost eighteen years. He is the founder of the Matzevah...
We spent the last week of 2022 in Eretz Israel. The most important goal of the trip was to meet with descendants of Mshany Jews, survivors of the Holocaust. Some of them we already knew, with others we had spoken...
On 17.01.2023 we celebrated the 26th Day of Judaism in Poland. We celebrated it with workshops with young people and by taking part in the Krakow celebrations, at the Tempel Synagogue, where our Jacob was asked to...
27.01.2023 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Mszana Dolna lost more than a thousand of its inhabitants as a result of this crime: Jews and Christians of Jewish origin. Also several Roma families. This...
We have received a thank-you note from the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem, for donating to the Institute a monograph on the Jewish cemetery in Mszana Dolna, published by our Shtetl Mszana Foundation. We donated...
On the 7th of February, Tuesday, at 5 pm, an unusual event will take place in the Meeting Room of the Town Hall in Mszana Dolna: a concert of Hasidic songs and psalms, dedicated to the memory of the Rebhun family...
A concert dedicated to the memory of the Rebhun family of Mszana Dolna and Rabka took place at the Mszana Dolna City Hall on February 7.2023. Psalms and Hasidic songs, also in his own compositions, were sung by...
"Yizkor in Jewish means memory, sparks light up the darkness. It's just like those people who, taking care of the remains, fragments of matzevot, abandoned objects, restore the memory of the former Jewish...
For the third time since Ukraine was brutally attacked by Russia, our foundation organized a campaign to help its people. On 1.04.2023 our vice-president Marek Rekucki, together with Mr. Tomasz Petrycki - who...
We wish all our Jewish friends, especially the descendants of the Jews of Mszana Dolna, a blessed Passover!
On 16.05.2023, we were visited by guests from Canada, participants in the 'March of Remembrance and Hope'. This is an international initiative, a programme for students of different religions and backgrounds, which...
The Vice-President of our Shtetl Mszana Dolna Foundation, Marek Rekucki, took part in the Kolping Academy for Social Leaders training, run by the Central Association of the Kolping Work in Poland. The participants...
At the end of this week the Jewish Feast of Weeks - Shavuot, the Pentecost of Judaism starts. It will begin on 25.05.2023 on Thursday evening and last until sunset on Saturday. Then, on the eve of the Solemnity of...
We wish all those celebrating Shavuot, especially the descendants of the Jews of Mshana Dolna, a happy and blessed holiday!
On 26.05.2023, in the Municipal Library in Mszana Dolna, a meeting around Shavuot - Pentecost, prepared by us, took place. It was the first event of this year's second edition of our educational project 'The Story...
The Jewish cemetery is the oldest monument in Mszana Dolna and the only material trace of the Jewish community of our town. Unfortunately, the matzevot are in a deplorable condition and this is really the last...
B'nai B'rith International has announced the winners of the first edition of the Gratitude Award - הכרת הטוב - honoring Polish citizens involved in the preservation of Jewish heritage in Poland and the...
On 23.06.2023 another meeting in our educational project "Story of bicultural, pre-war Mszana Dolna" edition 2023 took place. It focused on Christians of Jewish origin in Mszana Dolna. They were somehow separate,...
On the 27th of June, a gala ceremony was held to present the "Gratitude-Gratitude-הכרת הטוב" award, granted for the first time by B'nai B'rith International. The award honors individuals and institutions...
Shalom Rebhun, grandson of Amalia and David Pesach of Mszana Dolna, celebrated his 90th birthday, and the daughter of his grandson, Avi, Chana Miriam, her Bat Mitzvah. A Bat Mitzvah is a celebration of a girl's...
The grandson of those resting in the mass grave on the Lord's, Amalia and David Pesach Rebhun, Shalom Rebhun, celebrated his 90th birthday! The whole family gathered on this occasion: Shalom's sister Miriam,...
We would like to invite you to the first of the summer meetings of the 2nd edition of our "Tales of Bicultural, Pre-War Mszana Dolna". This time a real treat: a literary workshop with writer Patrycja Dolowy! Under...
The 81st Anniversary of the Shoah in Mszana Dolna is fast approaching: on 20. and 21.08.2023 we will commemorate and mourn over a thousand of our murdered fellow citizens. The most important commemorative event is...
On the 4th of August 2023, in the Meeting Room of the Town Hall in Mszana Dolna, the fifth meeting in this year's edition of our educational project "The Story of the Bicultural, Pre-War Mszana Dolna" took place....
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