Jack Ruby

"Ruby was born Jacob Rubenstein in 1911 to a family of Polish-Jewish immigrants. His parents, Joseph and Fannie, were a volatile couple. Joseph was a mean and abusive drunk. Fannie suffered from mental illness and at one point was committed to an Illinois state hospital."

Read about Jack Ruby whose father was from Sokolow (or Kosow like some say)

http://www.jta.org/2013/11/11/news-opinion/united-states/my-history-with-the-family-of-lee-harvey-oswalds-jewish-killer#ixzz2kT0RyDUp

"Kaddish for a million bucks" – statement

"The building of the former Beit Midrasz in Sokołów Podlaski was recovered on December 20, 1999, and sold on November 20, 2000. At the time of its restitution it was in very poor technical condition. It had been totally rebuilt – with the upper floor adapted for apartment space and the ground floor partially for services (shops) (...)"

http://www.jewish.org.pl/rest/?lang=en

"Never Forget to Lie"

A very interesting film by Marian Marzynski about survivors coming back to Poland. There is nothing about Sokolow but I'm sure you will recognise the emotions of those people.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365011461/

We are together 2013

"We are together 2013". Polish and Israeli youth in Treblinka. Before the ceremony they had a chance to meet and spend some time together in Kosów Lacki and Małkinia. The article about it (in Polish): http://www.jewish.org.pl/index.php/pl/wiadomopci-mainmenu-57/5671-jestemy-razem.html

Ceremony at Mały Rynek

The article about the ceremony (in Polish) http://www.jewish.org.pl/index.php/pl/wiadomopci-mainmenu-57/5658-wybor-pamici.html

Me, Piotr Kadlcik (the president of Warsaw Jewish Community),
Dawid Wildstein (a journalist), Tomasz Krakowski (representative of rabbi Schudrich)

Paweł Kryszczuk

Karolina Skibniewska

Tomasz Krakowski says a prayer at the old Jewish cemetery

The U.S. ambassador in Sokolow

Yesterday, the U.S. ambassador Stephen Mull visited Sokolow to see what young people know about the Jewish history of the town.

Sukkahs in Sokolow

Porch sukkahs in Sokolow. Two of them, although rebuilt, are still here.

Sukkot is one of the three biblically mandated festivals Shalosh regalim on which Hebrews were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. It follows the solemn holiday of Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement.