Jewish Tours Poland

26/11/2015

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Location showreel of Warsaw and Mazovia region based in very heart of Poland, Europe. Spot of Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission was made to encourage film produ...

09/10/2015

We hope you can join us next Wednesday for two Jewish cemetery re-dedication ceremonies, one in Józefów and the other in nearby Frampol. Work on installing new walls and gates was recently completed at both sites by our Foundation in partnership with the German organization ESJF Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft zur Erhaltung und zum Schutz jüdischer Friedhöfe in Europa (European Initiative of Cleaning Up of the Jewish Cemeteries).

09/10/2015

The traditional holiday ram's horn instrument was transformed by American sculptor Richard Edelman to celebrate Rosh Hashanah in Krakow's Jewish Quarter

29/09/2015

Zaklikow cemetery
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29/09/2015

Zaklikow, Poland.

18/09/2015

Made in POLIN. Journey of Transformation

Made in POLIN celebrates the first anniversary of the opening of POLIN Museum’s core exhibition, 1000 Year History of Polish Jews. The three-day program comprises premieres of new artistic projects, meetings, discussions and workshops.

A Journey of Transformation is what the curators of the core exhibition intended POLIN Museum to be. One year from the opening of the core exhibition, we invite you to experience the museum’s transformative power accompanied by artists and creators of culture.

Unusual guides will welcome you to POLIN Museum and lead you along their own paths. Musicians and multimedia artists will hack into our core exhibition. We will ask representatives of leading European cultural institutions whether transformation can be a planned experience. A Transformation Booth of will be placed in the main lobby, and there will be a delicious POLIN feast.

The POLIN Award will be given out for the first time during this first edition of Made in POLIN. The award will be granted to a person or institution working to safeguard the memory of Polish Jews and build respect among Poles, Jews and the societies of Europe and the world.

Join us for a journey of transformation. A journey Made in POLIN.

Read more here: www.polin.pl/en/made-in-polin-journey-of-transformation

18/09/2015

Remembering the Jews of Sokołów Podlaski - a ceremony next Tuesday - September 22, 2015 - at the site of the old Jewish cemetery in the town, sponsored by our Foundation.

17/09/2015

This stone commemorates three young children. Chaim Lejb, Shalom Shechna and Israel Abraham Topolski died on fire on 18th March 1908, which propably broke out in their father’s glazier’s workshop. Asher R. Topolski was a well-known member of the Jewish community and supported it generously, especially after the pogrom of 1906. The children’s older brother died only five years later. It is expected that the father emigrated to Palestine. [ 54 more words. ]

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This stone commemorates three young children. Chaim Lejb, Shalom Shechna and Israel Abraham Topolski died on fire on 18th March 1908, which propably broke out in their father’s glazier’s workshop. ...

17/09/2015

Mausoleum of the Three Yidish Writers on the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery Isaac Leib Peretz, Jakub Dinezon and S. Ansky (Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport) Mausoleum of the Three Writers Warsaw Jewish Cemetary www.jewishtourspoland.com

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  Mausoleum of the Three Yidish Writers on the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery Isaac Leib Peretz, Jakub Dinezon and S. Ansky (Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport) Mausoleum of the Three Writers Warsaw Jewish Cemet...

17/09/2015

The Soviet invasion of Poland - 17 September 1939

Seventy-six years ago, based on a secret protocol to the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the USSR, which is also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, named after the foreign ministers who had signed it on 23 August 1939, Soviet troops started crossing Poland’s eastern borders and occupying areas designated on a map that was attached to the treaty as a secret annex.

This new surprising strategic initiative essentially determined Poland’s fate in a conflict that had just begun.

Early morning on 17 September 1939, Wacław Grzybowski, the Polish ambassador to Moscow, refused to collect a Soviet note which sought to justify USSR’s aggression. That move was backed by the Foreign Minister Józef Beck, who at the time was in course of evacuation, along with the diplomatic corps accredited in Warsaw, towards the Romanian border and was staying in the town of Kuty.

The Soviet aggression accelerated Poland’s military defeat in the September campaign, highlighting the imperial nature of the interests and policies of both of Poland’s neighbors. In April 1939, Germany denounced the 1934 Polish-German No Force Declaration and then on 17 September 1939, the USSR broke the Treaty of Non-Aggression signed with Poland in 1932.

Photo: The secret protocol to the German-Soviet Pact of Nonaggression from August 23 1939 (signed by Ministers of Foreign Affairs of both countries, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov) demarcating how Polish lands were to be divided by the two states. The signatures of Joseph Stalin and Minister Ribbentrop are visible on the document.

14/09/2015

09/07/2015

By Pamela MacNaughtan Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. The Russians invaded 16 days later, thus beginning the European theater of World War II. By October 6 the Germans and Russians occupied all of Poland. The war lasted for five years and eight months in Europe, and during that time Poland was home to some of the most notorious prison camps known to man: Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Stutthof. [ 120 more words. ]

http://jewishtourspoland.com/theres-so-much-more-to-poland-than-war-memorials/

By Pamela MacNaughtan Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. The Russians invaded 16 days later, thus beginning the European theater of World War II. By October 6 the Germans and Russians occupied all of Poland. The war lasted for five years and eight months in Europe, and during that time Poland…