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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...
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 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...
"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...
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...
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...
#WeRemember!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 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...
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...
Lea Weissberger has died. She was married to Yehuda, son of Samuel Weissberger. The last survivor of the Holocaust in this family. תנצבה
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...
!שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה
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...
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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