As part of a grant from Jewish Historical Institute Association, I go to the United States to meet and record interviews with Survivor of the Holocaust Białowieża – David Waldshan living near Detroit and Martin Zafman living in Florida and David Fedelman, which are descendants of a Jewish family Feldbaums who emigrated from Bialowieza before the II War. Departure will take place on 11 – 20 of November 2016.

June 10th I will present the Virtual Museum of the History of Jews in Bialowieza during the Project Village at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews “Polin” in Warsaw, you are cordially invited! More information on the POLIN’s website.

The letter of  Rabbi Kopel Kahana from Bialowieza was bought for our Museum! It is the only existing document of Bialowieza Jewish community, which for several months was  circulating on the auction e-bay. The letter was bought for our Museum by Krzysztof Godlewski from Bialystok, on its own initiative in the impulse of his heart. Thank you very much!

Maybe, there will be the time when we will

The opening of the Virtual Museum of the History of Jews in Bialowieza, May 15, 2016

The opening of the Museum has gathered a lot of people – mainly residents of Białowieza, youth and old, who came to hear about their neighbors, many of whom they remember. They were both those whose stories have become the part of the Museum – Alexy Dackiewicz, Włodzimierz Dackiewicz, Slawomir Szpakowicz, Jerzy Ławrysz, as

Amir Berger pod dawnym domem rodziny Lerenkidnów

Na kirkucie w Narewce przy jednym z białowieskich grobów

Amir Berger, grandson of Matilda Lerenkind from Bialowieza, the son of Rachel Barchat, born in Bielsk Podlaski, who emigrated to Palestine with his parents, when she was 5 year old, came to Bialowieza on the opening of the Museum of the History of Jews in Bialowieza with his wife Dorit. The day before