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Zaburze near Szczebrzeszyn - December 2, 2014.

The pupils and teachers of schools in Zaburze and Radecznica, local residents and other guests gathered around two commemorated graves where 14 Jews lie buried, to pay tribute to the murdered ones. The victims’ names, identified by the Foundation, have been inscribed on the memorial plaques marking the graves. The Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich and the vicar priest of Mokrelipie parish said prayers. The students performed poetry recitations. Among the participants were also eyewitnesses to the events which had taken place in Zaburze in 1942.

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Wąsewo – November 27, 2014

A meeting between Zofia Kamionowska, member of the Association of Children of the Holocaust, Zbigniew Niziński of the Lasting Memory Foundation and the students and teachers took place in Jan Paweł II Junior Highschool in Wąsewo. The lecture and presentation concerned the activities that have been performed to commemorate nearly forgotten people and graves as well as the stories of people who had been rescued during World War II.

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Charlejów – November 17, 2014

In a meadow in Charlejów, the Foundation marked a burial pit of two Jews, brother and sister, who had been killed there towards the end of 1942 while hiding in a haystack. Some time before, in other place, their family of six were murdered. All of them came to the town from Łódź during the war.

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Kraków – October 22, 2014

On the occasion of giving the name of the Righteous among the Nations of the World to a Catholic Montessori School in Kraków, Zbigniew Niziński delivered a lecture and presentation to the students, regarding the commemoration of people and places related to the common history of Poles and Jews. The students heard the stories of Poles who had been rescuing Jews in WWII as well as those of people whose lives they had saved. The presentation included photographs from Zbigniew Niziński’s actions of searching for unmarked mass graves of Jews and commemorations of those graves, conducted by the Lasting Memory Foundation.

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Jodłowa – October 20, 2014

Once again, on October 20, the Lasting Memory Foundation, the students from the Jewish Culture Section of the Middle East Circle of the Jagiellonian University and the workers appointed by Jodłowa Commune Office conducted inventory of matzevot on the Jewish cemetery in Jodłowa. Russ Maurer, whose roots lie in Jodłowa, came from the US to participate in the cemetery works. The list of names and dates from over 80 matzevot was updated and complemented. A gravesite inspection of the burial pit of two Jews from Jodłowa, murdered in 1943, was conducted in a nearby forest.

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