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On 29.10.2024, a group of volunteers from Primary School No. 1 in Kasina Wielka, under the supervision of Ms Kinga Kołodziejczyk, cleaned up the area of the mass grave of Jews in Mszana Dolna. Kamil Strużyński...
On 25.10.2024, in the Mszana Dolna Municipal Library, we summarised this year's edition of the educational project ‘The Story of the Jewish Cemetery in Mszana Dolna’. It was combined with the vernissage of an...
On 21.10.2024 we had the joy and honour, to take part in the Ecumenical Bible Marathon held at the Evangelical Church of St.Martin in Krakow. A word that unites. That is how it should be. It is meant to, and more...
Chag sameach!
We spent entire Thursday of 17.10.2024 at the Jewish cemetery in our town. Two schools from the town and the municipality, namely Primary School No. 2 in Mszana Dolna and Primary School No. 2 in Mszana Górna,...
As part of the project ‘The Story of the Jewish Cemetery in Mszana Dolna. Edition 2024’, we visited another school, this time in in our town. However, before the older classes of Primary School No. 1 listened...
On 20 September 2024, the Sztetl Mszana Dolna Foundation presented a concert of prewar hit songs by Jewish writers and musicians. The songs were performed by Gabriela Bochniarz and Jakub Antosz-Rekucki, who also...
To the descendants of the Jews of Mszana Dolna and our dear friends: Chag Sukkot Sameach!
On 11.10.2024 in the Mszana Dolna Municipal Library, another meeting took place as part of this year's edition of ‘Story of the Bicultural, Pre-War Mszana Dolna’. It was devoted to the fate of Holocaust...
Another meeting with young people on the subject of the memory of the Jewish community of the town and municipality of Mszana Dolna. This time we were invited to the Primary School No. 1 in Mszana Górna, where we...
We particularly value the opportunity to work with the younger generation. On 24.09.2024, we were invited by the Headmistress, Ewelina Płachczyńska-Struś, to a meeting with the older classes of Primary School...
On the last sunny Sunday of this summer, 22.09.2024, our Sztetl Mszana Dolna Foundation organised a painting workshop at the Jewish cemetery in Mszana Dolna. It was led by Magdalena Komenza-Regnard: a Romanist,...
On 20.09.2024, a concert of pre-war hits entitled ‘Piosenka ci nie da zapomnieć...’ (“The song won't let you forget”) took place in the Municipal Library in Mszana Dolna. The event was extremely popular....
On 15.09.2024, as part of the European Heritage Days, our Sztetl Mszana Dolna Foundation organised a guided tour of an important and one of the few monuments in the town, the Jewish cemetery on Zakopiańska Street....
On 13.09.2024, a group of 30 volunteers – mostly students from Primary School No. 2 in Mszana Górna, with the Headmistress, Ewelina Płachczyńska-Struś and Mrs Marta Malarz – cleaned up the Jewish cemetery...
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...
An important and beautiful part of our commemoration of the 82nd Anniversary of the Holocaust in Mszana Dolna, was an evening with music: a concert by the female string quartet ‘Con Affetto’. We had several...
The region naturally links human destinies: in life, but also in death. People move, meet, merge, marry within a closer or farther area. This cobweb of human fates made us realise the need to show the Holocaust in...
Eighty-two years ago, on 19.08.1942, the Jewish community of Mszana Dolna and many surrounding villages ceased to exist. Almost all of them were exterminated in a mass execution on Pańskie Hill. This date has...
On Friday, 16.08.2024, a group of volunteers worked on cleaning the Jewish cemetery in Mszana Dolna. At the beginning, the new volunteers were trained on the rules of behaviour at Jewish cemeteries, the scope of...
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...
"I don't know where he gets these images from. He must have an angel in his head". - another great artist, Pablo Picasso, is supposed to have said of Marc Chagall. On 2.8.2024, the fifth meeting of this year's...
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 14.06.2024 at the Mszana Dolna Town Hall, the 3rd meeting, and the 4th event, of the 3rd edition of our educational project 'The Story of the Bicultural, Pre-War Mszana Dolna' took place. It concerned the...
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....
On the 16th of May 2024, with another group of young people from the Complex of Technical and Information Schools in Mszana Dolna, we visited the mass grave of the Holocaust Victims on Pansky Street. It is moving...
You are invited to the opening of the exhibition "Guardians of Memory" organised by the Embassy of Poland in Israel that will take place on Monday, 3.6.24 at 11:00 in the Mashmaut Center in Kiryat Motzkin. The...
There are nice moments in our work on memory and dialogue. These include moments of appreciation of our efforts. This time the commitment of the co-founder and vice-president of our Shtetl Mszana Dolna Foundation,...
Dear Friends, You can now support our activities by donating through Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland: https://jewishheritagepoland.org/mszanadolna.html. You can find information about our Foundation under the...
Tehillim - Psalms. A Jewish and Christian treasury of prayers On 26.04.2024 in the Municipal Library in Mszana Dolna, the first meeting of the third edition of our educational project 'The Story of the...
2.05.2024 marks the opening of the "Guardians of Memory" exhibition at the Hebrew University of Education and Social Work Library, Mount Scopus in Jerusalem The exhibition showcases restoration efforts and the...
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
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...
Summary of Sztetl Mszana Dolna activities in 2023. EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS In 2023, we prepared more than 20 events for the residents of our town. These included lectures, workshops, vernissages, exhibitions, games,...
Happy Hanukkah! Light, peace, blessings!
Z głębin ziemi znowu nas wyprowadzisz Ps 71,20 From the depths of the earth you shall bring us up again ומתהומות הארץ תשוב תעלנו Monument Commemorating Shoah Victims in Mszana Dolna...
On 16 November 2023 Rachela Tauber, the granddaughter of Amalia and Pesach Dawid Rebhun from Mszana Dolna, passed away. She was 88 years old. She was one of the first Jewish persons we learnt about when we were...
On 20 October 2023 we concluded this year’s edition of the educational project “The Story of the Jewish Cemetery in Mszana Dolna” at the Municipal Library in Mszana Dolna. The event was connected with the...
A local amateur photograph, Robert Łabuz shared his works taken at the Jewish cemetery in Mszana Dolna — thank you!
Another, the third in this edition of the project "The Story of the Jewish Cemetery in Mszana Dolna", action of cleaning up our historic necropolis is has taken place on 10.10.2023. We want to thank everyone who...
On 6.10.2023, at the Municipal Library in Mszana Dolna, we met with the participants of our educational project "The story of bicultural, pre-war Mszana Dolna". This time we went on a virtual journey to one of...
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....
We wish all our friends, the descendants of the Jews of Mszana Dolna, and everyone else a joyful Sukkot: Hag Sukkot sameach!
On 15.09.2023, the Municipal Library in Mszana Dolna hosted a meeting around the question of the determinants of the Shoah tragedy. Rachela Antosz-Rekucka, a psychologist/doctoral student at the Doctoral...
After the weather sensations, there were many broken branches in the Jewish cemetery, which, fortunately, did not damage the gravestones, but needed to be collected and tidied up. The windstorms also carried a lot...
On 31.08.2023, at the Jewish cemetery in Mszana Dolna, a photography workshop was held. It was led by well-known photographer, artist and film producer, Agnieszka Traczewska. Since 2006 she has been creating...
To those celebrating Rosh Hashanah: we wish you all a good, blessed, and sweet year 5784! Shana tova!
During the second day of the commemoration of the 81st Anniversary of the Shoah in Mszana Dolna, on 21.08.2023, ceremonies were held at the memorial sites: at the mass grave of the Victims on Pańskie and at the...
On 20-21.08.2023, ceremonial commemoration of the 81st Anniversary of the Shoah in our town took place. 19.08.1942 is a symbolic date, when the occupants: SS-men from Nowy Sącz, with the cooperation of the mayor...
The official commemoration of the 81st Anniversary of the Holocaust in Mszana Dolna will take place on 20-21.08.2023, to respect the Sabbath rest, but the calendar 81st Anniversary of the horrible crime against a...
On 18.08.2023 an amazing volunteer action at the Jewish cemetery and mass grave at Pańskie. Twenty great volunteers work hard to get everything's done before the predicted storm, and it was also necessary to...
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....
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...
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 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 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 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 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We wish all those celebrating Shavuot, especially the descendants of the Jews of Mshana Dolna, a happy and blessed holiday!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We wish all our Jewish friends, especially the descendants of the Jews of Mszana Dolna, a blessed Passover!
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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"
Another project of our Shtetl Mszana Dolna Foundation. "Subsidized under the program of the National Heritage Institute - Together for Heritage".
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...
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 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...
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...
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