Dear Friends,
I am writing to you to thank you for your help and support so far in commemorating the history of Sokołów Jews. I've been doing this since 2010, and while it seems like a long time, I think there's still a lot to discover.
This year we have completed the translation from Yiddish into Polish of the fifth book about Sokołów - the 815-page Memorial Book https://sokolow.jewish.pl/ksiega-pamieci/ksiega-pamieci/. Together with the other books: two by Simcha Polakiewicz and two by Perec Granatsztejn, it is available online for free for anyone who would like to read it. It has always been important to me that children and young people from schools in Sokołów have access to this history and now it is possible.
I wanted to thank you for a lot of advice, for your help, for sending family photos and documents. All this allowed me to get to know our common history better and learn much more about it. I am very grateful for our personal meetings or e-mail exchanges. Thanks to this, together we changed the world for the better, because we brought back the names of Sokołów Jews to the awareness of the current inhabitants of the town.
They say that a man lives as long as his memory lives on. In Sokołów, the Jews were forgotten for many many years. Now we have turned the tables - their names and stories are known here, local school students read our translation, and researchers quote them in their articles and books.
Of course, there is still a lot to do, but this step was huge and extremely important.
Since I would like to publish books by Simche Polakiewicz and Perec Granatsztejn, I wonder if you have photos of these two writers?
Thank you again for everything we've been able to do together!
Kasia
