Jewish traces

About this site

This service is supposed to preserve for posterity the places associated with the Jewish people that lived on current Polish areas particularly. Here I am going to publish documents and photographs relating to Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and Jewish martyrdom.

"In times when the others gather - you squander!
When the others scatter - you accumulate!
"
- Talmud -

Trivia

  • All Jewish tombstones are turned towards the west.

Various articles

  • Operacja Paperclip [Polish only];
  • The Onion Affair in 1938 [from archival Polish newspaper];

Jews in Poland

Here you will find: photos of cemeteries, synagogues, and places related to Jewish culture.

  • Auschwitz;
  • Będzin;
  • Biała;
  • Bieruń;
  • Bytom;
  • Czechowice-Dziedzice;
  • Czeladź;
  • Częstochowa;
  • Dzierżoniów;
  • Gliwice;
  • Gogolin;
  • Grodziszcze;
  • Lędziny;
  • Lutowiska;
  • Mikołów;
  • Modrzejów;
  • Mysłowice;
  • Niedzica;
  • Otmuchów;
  • Pszczyna;
  • Rzeszów;
  • Sławków;
  • Sosnowiec;
  • Ustroń;
  • Zabrze;
  • Żory;

Jews in Germany

  • Köln;