Monday, November 3, 2014 I attended a memorial gathering in eastern Poland in a little town, Orla (in Polish “of the eagles”), near Bialystok. The following video captures the mood of the memorial service. Orla is typical of hundreds of villages throughout Poland. An out of the way village on the Russian-Polish border not far from […]
United by Memory in Bialystok
Throughout Poland on Sunday April 19, 2015 memorial events marked the seventy – second anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazi occupiers. These pictures are from Bialystok. Children, adults and whole families were given yellow flowers as a symbol of these events. The symbol was first used by the ghetto survivor Marek Edelman, […]
Beit Polska Featured in Spring 2015 Kulanu News
Spring 2015 issue of Kulanu News is now online here. Kulanu (All of Us) has included “us” in their latest newsletter. We are featured along a number of “new “uses.” We thank Judy Manelis, Jack Zeller, andHarriet Bograd among the many devoted leaders of Kulanu. This is the second time we are featured in their […]
Honoring the Righteous Poles
Holocaust survivor and visionary philanthropist, Zygmunt Rolat addressed students and and young people in Auschwitz – Birkenau at the annual March of the Living at the Arpil 16, 2015 commemoration. Mr. Rolat is one of key innovators and philanthropists who struggled to bring the museum; Polin: A Museum of the History of Polish Jews” to […]
Hanukkah 2014
Enjoy the wonderful pictures from Beit Warszawa Hanukkah 2014 (5775). The Progressive Jewish community in Warsaw enjoyed wonderful latkes and Hanukkah games (especially dreidle) and activities. Please consider a Hanukkah tax free gift that will sustain the hope filled work of Beit Polska and the nine communities served by the European Union for Progressive Judaism and Friends of Jewish […]
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