Jewish Heritage In Poland Tour
history of Polish Jews during Shoah
During your visit as I am educator at Auschwitz Memorial you will learn about the annihilation of Polish Jews by German Nazis and they collaborators. On the other hand I will make sure that you will not spend your time only on five years of history of Jews during II World War but as well educate and visit the heritage of thousand years history Jewelry here. During your trip you will visit the places connected both to the Jewish heritage and the past but also to the renewal of Jewish life in Poland. Then you will be able to in some way contend with the enormity of the loss you can’t contend with in any case but at least through understanding how they lived and understanding that there’s a renewal. When you will start to feel that you can face then with what happened. Important for people to understand that there’s a larger context to life in Poland and not just death in Poland.
We will show you answers to the questions as: About what happened? What was Jewish life here? What was the life that was destroyed? Questions about how the destruction happened?
Polish Jewish Heritage Sites: Cemeteries, Synagogues, and Ohels
Poland is home to many sites that commemorate Jewish history, ranging from cemeteries and synagogues to ohels of rabbis. Thanks to the efforts of various organizations, some of these places have been restored, while others still serve as reminders of the past. Here is a detailed list of Jewish-related heritage sites in Poland that are worth visiting. Visiting these sites is not just a journey into the past, but also a way to commemorate those who perished in the Holocaust. For families of Holocaust surviors, religious Jews and researchers of Jewish history, these places provide an invaluable history lesson. Although not all these sites are in perfect condition, each serves as a significant testament to the Jewish communities that once thrived in Poland.
ANDRYCHOW
Andrychow Jewish Cemetery Established in not known, area of 0.58 hectares, brick fence, preserved about 400 tombstones, including a number of valuable historical value.
BIELSKO BIALA
Founded synagogue is not known; house of prayer, active.
The cemetery, founded in 1849, area of 2.4 hectares, brick fence, preserved about 400 tombstones.
Next to the mortuary of the Jewish cemetery, neglected and ruined, now in off-site on the initiative and at the expense of Nisenbaumów Family Foundation.
In 1765 in Bielsko expelled living there before the Jews. Re-Jewish settlement began in the nineteenth century, but only in the suburbs. The prayer house was launched in 1831, the cemetery – in 1849. The municipality was founded only in 1865 under the name “Community Izraelicka Lipnik near Biala” Lipnik before the war became a suburb and was absorbed by the city. The Jews in Bielsko came from Moravia, Slovakia and the Western Small-Polish. With the exception of the association Chevra Kadisha all community institutions were common for the White and White-rock. They were m.in .: progressive synagogue (with choir), the school Talmud-Torah, Talmud School Marbic-Torah (in their own building with primary school) Hebrew school open, safe interest-free Gmilas Chesed. In Bielsko lived and taught two well-known rabbis: SZH Halbersztam and Saul Horo-witz (1888-1895). Prior to the outbreak of war in 1939 in Bielsko-Biala was home to about 4,700 Jews, most of them were connected professionally with the industry textile industries. Germans as early as 13 September 1939 destroyed the upper floors of the synagogue. In the summer of 1941 created a ghetto was liquidated in czerwcu.1942 the deportation of the entire Jewish population to the extermination camp at Auschwitz.
CIESZYN
The cemetery, founded in the eighteenth century, after the 1.9-hectare surface, brick fence, preserved about 500 tombstones.
The cemetery, founded in the nineteenth century, the area of 0.75 hectares, brick fence, preserved about 100 tombstones. On the edge of the cemetery ruin synagogue.
Monument, the Cieszyn Jewish cemetery Set on the mass grave of several-ten Jews were shot and buried here in 1944.
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
Kety
The cemetery, located approximately 3 km from Kety, on the outskirts of Vitkovice Founded not known, residue
0.13 hectare surface, brick fence with a gate, partly devastated, about 30 tombstones preserved.
Milowka
Oswiecim- Auschwitz city
SKOCZÓW
Year of construction is not known, no further data.
Cemetery, not far Wilamowic Founded not known, post-top 1 hectare, fenced , much devastated, about 20 tombstones preserved.
USTRON
WADOWICE
Wall, inside the high school building plaque with the names of professors and alumni who died during the war, including Jews.
ZATOR
ZYWIEC
Myślenice
Niepołomice
New Brzesko
Proszowice
Skala
Słomniki
Wieliczka
Biała Niżna
Bobowa
Chochołów
Czarny Dunajec
Gorlice
Grybów
Jordanów
Konina
Krościenko
Krynica
Limanowa
Łabowa
Mszana Dolna
Mukacz
Muszyna
Nowy Sącz
Nowy Targ
Piwniczna
Podwilk
Rabka
Upper Ropica
Skrzydlna
Stary Sącz
Gatehouse
Szczawnica
Śnietnica
Zakopane
Baczków




