News
2012-04-30
A defaced Jewish cemetery in Pszczyna
Last week, the Jewish cemetery situated on Katowicka Street in Pszczyna was vandalized. Nineteen tombstones, some of which date back to the early 19th century, were damaged in the old part of the cemetery.
Sławomir Pastuszka, a caretaker of the cemetery, discovered uprooted and knocked down matzevot, some of which have already been restored to their proper upright position. The surrounding area has been successfully cleaned. Presently, the cemetery is undergoing restoration works. Thanks to benevolent people, circa 150 tombstones have been arranged, sixty of which have been restored to an upright position. This Sunday, on May 6th, an action of cleaning the cemetery, initiated by Sławomir Pastuszka and members of Forum Zbuntowani Eksploratorzy (Forum of Rebelled Explorers), will start.
Next year, Sławomir Pastuszka’s monograph on the cemetery will be published. The book presents a detailed itemized list of the Jewish graveyard (including copies of records, translations, descriptions and photographs of all tombstones) and information from archives and other sources. The publication tells the history of the local Jewish community and includes a glossary of Pszczyna Jews, portraying all Jewish families who resided in Pszczyna.
If you want to contribute to arranging the cemetery, send an e-mail to the following address slawek@jcckrakow.org.
Archive
- june 2013
- may 2013
- april 2013
- march 2013
- february 2013
- january 2013
- december 2012
- november 2012
- october 2012
- september 2012
- august 2012
- july 2012
- june 2012
- may 2012
- april 2012
- A Conference on Jewish Studies in Krakow (2012-04-30)
- A defaced Jewish cemetery in Pszczyna (2012-04-30)
- ‘Restoration’ received Warsaw Gold Phoenix at the ‘Jewish Motifs’ International Film Festival (2012-04-30)
- Monthly meetings with Klezmer Music in Wrocław (2012-04-27)
- The 15th edition of the Jewish Book Days (2012-04-27)
- The Core Exhibition of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews finally designed (2012-04-27)
- A dispute over Praszka synagogue (2012-04-26)
- Prisoners will stage a play based on Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s drama (2012-04-26)
- A School of Dialogue in Boguchwała (2012-04-26)
- Laurent Joly’s lecture and a discussion (2012-04-25)
- ‘Swietokrzyszki Shtetl’ multimedia presentation (2012-04-25)
- A rededication ceremony in the Jewish cemetery in Myślenice (2012-04-25)
- Representatives of the Dutch Parliament Visit the Museum (2012-04-24)
- Warburg Colony disappears from Brest landscape (2012-04-24)
- An exhibition of Alan Metnick’s works in the Klatka Gallery (2012-04-24)
- Rembertów-Falenica Memorial March (2012-04-23)
- Identity clichés as a form of slavery. A series of lectures in Warsaw. (2012-04-23)
- Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jom HaShoah) (2012-04-20)
- Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota’s lecture ‘Women who left Egypt’ (2012-04-20)
- Workshops for teachers: Warsze, Warsza, Warszawa – the diverse richness of Jewish Warsaw (2012-04-20)
- A photo exhibition by Kazimierz Seko, a member of the Righteous Among the Nations (2012-04-19)
- Prewar Jewish Warsaw in Historic Photographs (2012-04-19)
- ‘Jewish Motifs’ in Warsaw (2012-04-19)
- The 69th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising without the monument (2012-04-18)
- An online educational set ‘Jan Karski and his time’ makes its debut (2012-04-18)
- The secrets of a Jewish cemetery discovered (2012-04-17)
- The Auschwitz Museum releases educational books for children (2012-04-17)
- The opening of an exhibition at the Mount of Death in Pustkow (2012-04-17)
- The 4th edition of the Jewish Cultural Festival in Radom (2012-04-16)
- Marek Edelman and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (2012-04-16)
- US Holocaust Remembrance Days commemorate the Righteous (2012-04-16)
- Singer’s Warsaw is Your Warsaw! (2012-04-13)
- The inauguration of a new exhibition at the Memorial Museum in Bełżec (2012-04-13)
- San Diego conference talks about the Virtual Shtetl (2012-04-12)
- Jewish culture at Ester Rachel and Ida Kaminska Jewish Theater in Warsaw (2012-04-12)
- Another matzevot discovered in Suwałki (2012-04-12)
- A monument to Poznań Jews was defaced (2012-04-11)
- Promotional book sets for schools and teachers (2012-04-11)
- The action ‘Remember with us’ will bring back the memories of wartime Krakow (2012-04-11)
- The 7th edition of the International Summer School ‘Teaching about the Holocaust’ (2012-04-10)
- The movie ‘Neighbors’ on the Kultura TV channel (2012-04-10)
- The 69th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (2012-04-10)
- Pesach 5772 (2012-04-07)
- The Lithuanian Virtual Shtetl to be launched soon (2012-04-06)
- A former yeshiva in Lublin will house a hotel (2012-04-06)
- The 9th edition of the ‘Memory for the Future’ project – the ‘Polish-Jewish relations’ competition (2012-04-06)
- A Virtual Shtetl workshop in Góra Kalwaria (2012-04-05)
- ‘Teaching on the Shoah and anti-Semitism’ – a seminar (2012-04-05)
- TO STAY OR GO? : Jews in Europe in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust (2012-04-05)
- April Wednesdays on Kultura TV channel (2012-04-04)
- The first anniversary of the Pardes Internet Yeshiva’s existence (2012-04-04)
- The Year of Korczak in Warsaw (2012-04-03)
- The 14th edition of the Simcha Jewish Culture Festival (2012-04-03)
- The New Jewish Music Festival (2012-04-03)
- A remarkable epoch. Sketches inspired by Bruno Schulz. (2012-04-02)
- The ‘Memory in Stone’ Project goes to Szydłowiec (2012-04-02)
- Chasidim – a lost world (2012-04-02)
- march 2012
- february 2012
- january 2012
- december 2011
- november 2011
- october 2011
- september 2011
- august 2011
- july 2011
- june 2011
- may 2011
- april 2011
- march 2011
- february 2011
- january 2011
- december 2010
- november 2010
- october 2010
- september 2010
- august 2010
- july 2010
- june 2010
- may 2010
- april 2010
- march 2010
- february 2010
- january 2010
- december 2009
- november 2009
- october 2009
- september 2009
- august 2009
- july 2009
- june 2009
- may 2009
- october 2008
