Jewish Heritage, Poland

This Web Page is dedicated to the Memory of Lejzer Flinker, son of Moshe, from Kalisz, known as "Zdislaw Kubicki" during WWII, who was killed during the Polish Revolt in Warsaw, 17 August 1944 in battle. He received the highest Polish Medal ("Virtuli Militari") for his heroism. The Medal was found on his bleeding body. He was buried by brother Jakob Flinker on January 20^th 1945 in the Jewish Cemetery of Warsaw. God will revenge his blood.

Note to the Reader:
The following linked Web Pages are mostly found in my site.
Exceptional are the web page of Tilford Bartman - Zabludow Synagogue, Sobibor, the Yiddish Theater memorial and the remarkable web site of Mike Rosenzweig, Ph. D. : "Jewish-Polish Heritage".
I thank Moshe Verbin, who gave me the permission and blessing to post his wooden synagogue exhibition on-line! (completed in March 2003).
I don't pretend to cover all the subjects in full. Such a project will require dedicated work of hundreds of people' whole lives...
All those pages constitute just a drop in the ocean of culture, wisdom, tradition, creation and many other expressions of the human Jewish spirit, that has been the heritage of the vanished Polish Jewry...

Gone now are those little towns where the shoemaker was a poet,
The watchmaker a philosopher, the barber a troubadour.

Gone now are those little towns where the wind joined
Biblical songs with Polish tunes and Slavic rue,
Where old Jews in orchards in the shade of cherry trees
Lamented for the holly walls of Jerusalem.

Gone now are those little towns, though the poetic mists,
The moons, winds, ponds, and stars above them
Have recorded in the blood of centuries the tragic tales,
The histories of the two saddest nations on earth.

FODZ (Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland - Fundacja Ochrony Dziedzictwa Żydowskiego)

Finally, why do we call ourselves "Bagnówka"? This is a district of Bialystok which contains the largest Jewish cemetery in north-east Poland. This cemetery is located next to the Catholic cemetery which in turns adjoins the Orthodox cemetery. These three cemeteries in Bagnówka that lie peacefully next to each are for us a potent symbol of what we are seeking to achieve - partnership and good-neighbourliness.
Bagnówka

Tomasz Wisniewski: Wooden Tombstones from Jewish Cemeteries in Eastern Europe

The image hereunder is made from parts of the tree, like a puzzle... Click a part to enlarge it and view the names of the Rabbis.

"עץ החיים" אילן היוחסין של הבעש"ט ותלמידיו

Drzewo Genealogicczne B Szem Tow

"Etz Hahaim" the Genealogical Chart of Baal Shem Tov and his Disciples.

Ada Holtzman's Letter to IGS (Hebrew)

Introduction by Dr. Yehuda Klausner

List of the Persons

List of the Locations

List of the Dynasties

The Data File in Excel

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