1/27/23

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

 A group of survivors returned to Sokołów after the war to find that they were not welcome here. Other people lived in their houses, other people ran their shops, and the mayor of the town told the Jews who had survived the war to move to Węgrów. 

They still managed to visit familiar places - cemeteries, houses of prayer, a bathhouse - and take photos documenting the emptiness left in the town.

Today is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 78 years after the end of the war in Sokołów, this emptiness has still not been filled.



1/5/23

Polish daily about Sokołów

 If you happen to be in Warsaw today, you can read about Sokołów in the largest daily - "Gazeta Wyborcza". The article concerns the translation of memorial books from Yiddish into Polish and the challenges in the study of Polish-Jewish history (especially when it comes to the current town authorities).



1/1/23

Hanukkah 1928

 "People attending a Hanukkah ball for the benefit of the community.

Sokolow 5689 [December 1928]"


I understand it was a charity event, right? Do you know any of these people?