Commemoration of the grave of a murdered Jewish family

We want to commemorate the grave of a Jewish family shot in 1944 in the forest not far from Brzeźnica village. Project co-financed by the Forum for Dialogue.

01 Monument at the grave of the murdered Jewish family

On Sunday, October 18, 2020 we unveiled the monument on the grave of a Jewish family murdered during the war in Poręba Spytkowska forest. Due to the general epidemiological situation, we could not organize a major ceremony. But although there...

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02 Update on commemoration, September 2020

In March 2019 we learnt the story of a Jewish family which had been shot in Poręba Spytkowska forest in 1944. Aleksandra Kotra, Kamila Mamica and Magdalena Piech, students of Brzesko high school, wrote about it when taking part in...

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03 Project of the monument on the grave of the murdered Jewish family

We've been working on commemoration of the grave of a Jewish family murdered in 1944 in Poręba Spytkowska-Brzeźnica forest for well over a year already. During this time, we've managed to record testimonies of 2 witnesses, determine the exact location...

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04 Exact location of the grave of the murdered Jewish family

On October 2, 2019  Alex Schwarz from the Rabbinical Comission on Jewish Cemeteries managed to confirm the precise location of the grave of the Jewish family murdered in Poręba Spytkowska forest in 1944 Georadar analysis allowed to mark rectangle of...

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05 Grave in the forest: new witness

Maybe you remember the story I shared back in June? Jewish family hiding during the war on the outskirts of Brzeźnica village, was discovered and shot in the forest. In May I visited that place together with Mr. Marian Put,...

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06 GPR analysis of the possible burial place of an executed Jewish family

On June 7, 2019 we travelled again to the forest in the neighbourhood of Brzeźnica and Poręba Spytkowska villages, this time together with Mr Aleksandr Schwarz from "Zapomniane" ("Forgotten") foundation. We were hoping that Mr Schwarz would confirm location of...

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07 Grave of a Jewish family shot in the forest close to Poręba Spytkowska village.

I want to share a story of a Jewish family which was murdered in the forest nor far from Poręba Spytkowska, a village in Brzesko neighborhood. I learnt this story due to the work of Brzesko high school students submitted...

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