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(August 2022) – “The USA-based 501c3 non-profit organization, Bialystok Cemetery Restoration, Fund would like to announce an extremely important discovery of significant importance to the Jewish history of Bialystok, Poland.” 

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(August 2022) – “A lapidarium of the Jewish cemetery, which was buried after World War II, will be created in Central Park on Kalinowskiego Street. Matzevot found on Boya-Żeleńskiego Street, which have just come from the Jewish cemetery in the city center, will go there.” (Read the Story)

(August 2022) – “The center of Bialystok will be the place where a lapidarium of the Jewish cemetery, where the Central Park was created, can be built.” (Read the Story)

(August 2022) – “Discovery in a neighborhood square. 100 valuable tombstones unearthed” (Read the Story)

(August 2022) – “Bialystok. Sensational discovery from the early 19th Century in a mound next to the Jewish Cemetery on Wschodnia Street.”(Read the Story)

(May 2019) – “For the past two summers, Ali Flagler ’17 has helped bring dignity and visibility to the Bagnowka Jewish Cemetery in Bialystok, Poland.”
(Read the Story)

(May 2019) – “Poland was always on my bucket list, but I never expected to spend my summers there volunteering to restore a Jewish cemetery.” (Read the Story in the May 2019 Edition [link to internal blog feature])

(February 2019) – “Local, Vivianne Schill, fulfilling a long-held dream to participate in international community service.”  (Read the Story)

(January 2019) – “What visiting one of Poland’s ‘invisible’ cemeteries taught me about the Holocaust in a way no documentary could.”  (Read the Story)

(November 2018) – “Why New Hampshire’s Ali Flagler spent her summer vacation in a Jewish cemetery.” (Read the Story – Page 21)

(February 2018) – “Amy and Josh Degen, of the Bialystok Cemetery Restoration Project, join Poland’s Honorary Consul General to discuss the resurgence of Jewish culture in Poland today.” (Read more)

(November 2017) – “One section of the cemetery designated for restoration offered a literal puzzle of tombstone bases and tops to be painstakingly sorted per this cemetery’s burial patterns.” (Read the Story)

(January 2017) – “What we’re doing is a drop in the bucket in global terms, but doing something to restore the cemetery’s dignity has been very meaningful.” (Read the Story)

(December 2016) – “If our grandfather did not leave Bialystok for the United States in 1928, we probably never would have been born.” (Read the Story)

(August 2016) – “Amy and Josh Degen would be hard pressed to call their 12-day trip to Poland a vacation.” (Read the Story)

(July 2016) – “Bialystok is like much of Eastern Europe in that it has Jewish cultural festivals and memorials, but very few Jewish people.” (Read the Story)