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What a wonderful pleasure it was on October 16, 2025 for Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland to work with Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett of the American Friends of POLIN Museum of the History of Jews of Poland and Elizabeth Szancer (of both boards) and Gideon Taylor (president of the WJRO and the Claims Conference, and our board) in organizing this New York City showing of a beautifully done and profoundly important award-winning new documentary directed by Yoav Potash and p

In an exciting update of our past work, Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland is grateful to have been one of the many partners involved in reconciliation and restoration efforts in Przysucha. These efforts, which are ongoing, recently saw the returning of Jewish gravestone fragments to the Przysucha Jewish Cemetery, sponsored and supported by a number of partners in Poland. During the German occupation of Poland and the years to follow, many Jewish cemeteries were destroyed a

On May 2, 2025 a large section of the front retaining wall of the Kolbuszowa Jewish cemetery accidentally collapsed, just two weeks after structural decay was noticed by a local resident. Please consider donating urgently to help us support efforts to fund the restoration of this wall and protect the integrity of the remains and the tombstones of those buried behind the wall! To read more about this incident, see Polish media  coverage .

The Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin, which held tens of thousands of Jewish religious texts and prints, was built in interwar Lublin and was...

August 2025: Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland was an integral part of the 2025 IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Fort Wayne, Indiana USA. Sponsored in part by FJHP, historian Krzysztof Bielawski, staff member of the Foundation for Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, presented two lectures, including one about his new book “The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland.” During our FJHP Birds of a Feather meeting, he met meet informally with descendants inte