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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...
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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: we received a grant of PLN 7,000 from Stowarzyszenie Żydowski Instytut Historyczny (the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute) for the renovation of the monument at the mass grave of Jews...
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...
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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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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