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, […]
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 […]
Memorial at Jedwebne, July 2014
Members of Beit Polska and one lone survivor at the 2014 memorial at Jedwebne. Related post Jedwabne 2013
Jedwabne 2013
On July 10, 2013 members of Poland’s Jewish community gathered in the town of Jedwabne in the Lomza region for a memorial service. At the memorial – one, lone, eye witness child survivor, Isaac Lewin was there to witness and interrupt the proceedings commemorating the events of July 10, 1941. The reflection below: “Jedwabne 2013” […]