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Out of 51 photos presented for the competition, the jury chose 26 pictures for the exhibition. The official opening of the exhibition prepared by Mr. Daniel Nalepka took place on September 10, 2022, right after the awards were presented to the winners. You can read more about it here: https://brzesko-briegel.pl/en/2022/09/18/brzesko-bond-of-memory-2022-2/ Here are the photos chosen […]
Mala Zimetbaum was born in Brzesko on January 20, 1918 as the youngest, sixth child in the family of the merchant Pinkas Zimetbaum/Hartman and Chaje Feigel nee Schmalzer. Mala’s paternal grandparents, Berl Hartman from Brzesko and Marjem Jochwet Zimetbaum from Nowy Sącz, had only a religious marriage, which was not recognized by the state. Accordingly, […]
Events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the extermination of the Brzesko Jewish community started on Saturday, September 10 with the visit of the descendants of Brzesko Jews to the regional museum, where on behalf of the Association “Memory and Dialog. Common History” they were welcomed by Anna Kudła and Zuzanna Peters-Musiał. Part of the permanent […]
The photo competition “Crumbs of Memory – material traces of the Brzesko Jewish Community” organized by the Association “Memory and Dialogue. Common History” and the County and City Public Library in Brzesko has just been adjudicated. Competition participants were to take the most interesting photograph showing the material traces of the presence of Jews in Brzesko. […]
Authors: Kamila Nycz and Weronika Salamon, Brzesko high schoolnamed after Nicolaus Copernicus Distinction in the 5th edition of the project “We know your names. Commemoration of the pre-war Jewish community of Brzesko and vicinity”. “…I will pause with you, dear participants of this meeting, for a moment by the plaque with the inscription in Hebrew. […]
In April 2021, we received several new photos from the family archive of prof. Charles Weiss Jr., including a photo of the main Bresko synagogue. All photos from this collection were taken in 1929, when the father of prof. Weiss, Brzesko-born Schaje (Charles) Weiss visited his hometown while traveling around Europe. (The Weisses emigrated from […]
Some time ago we received several new photos from prof. Charles Weiss Jr. These pictures were also taken by his father, Schaje (Charles) Weiss, during his short stay in Brzesko in 1929. Thanks to Marek Sukiennik it was possible to place these photos on the modern map of Brzesko (red line in the photo from […]
Just a few days after the start of World War II, the Germans entered Brzesko. In the fall of 1939, persecution of Jews began, and in the spring of 1941 there was established a ghetto, which remained open for about a year. The area of the ghetto included the building pictured in the photo (current […]
Some time ago we received several new photos from prof. Charles Weiss Jr. These pictures were also taken by his father, Schaje (Charles) Weiss, during his short stay in Brzesko in 1929. Thanks to these photos it was possible to recreate the history of another Jewish family from Brzesko. The first photo shows a fairly […]
Over 3 years ago we received 14 photos from the collection of prof. Charles Weiss Jr. These photos were taken in Brzesko in 1929 by his father prof. Schaje (Charles) Weiss. However only recently I have understood what might be on one of these pictures The photo was originally signed by the author as “Mordechai […]