January 2025: On January 5th, we presented our first "Distinguished Service" awards to Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich and Mr. Adam Bartosz, founder and chair of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Tarnów.
With decades of devoted service to the protection of Jewish heritage in Poland, we recognized
  • Rabbi Schudrich for his leadership of a Jewish community challenged by the catastrophes of 20th century Jewish life in Poland and for his commitment to the protection of the abandoned and neglected Jewish cemeteries of our ancestors.
  • Mr. Bartosz for his unparalleled leadership in the preservation and restoration of the Jewish cemetery of Tarnów and in leading care of other Jewish cemeteries in Galicia.
  • The dedication and kindness of Rabbi Schudrich and Mr. Bartosz.
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November 2024: Led by local teacher Robert Kobylarczyk, working in partnership with descendant Ellen Mains and the Atelier of Skills Foundation and FJHP, dignity has been increasingly brought to the devastated Tuszyn Jewish cemetery by the placement of tons of bark stones in the vicinity of surviving tombstone fragments, an informational signboard, and a boulder displaying the surnames of Jewish families who once resided there.
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November 2024: In Korczyna a few trees have been endangering the Jewish cemetery. FODŻ and the local town have found a volunteer who will cut the trees for free! Thank you to FODŻ, Krzysztof Bielawski, the local volunteer, and all involved in this small but vital act of protecting memory.

Photo credit: Henryk Bielamowicz/Wikimedia Commons.
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October 2024: We are now working with descendant Krzystof Wołek and his father to raise funds to repair the wall and care for the Bytom Jewish cemetery. Please help us protect this cemetery where 1000 tombstones still stand.