Last Remnants: One Scholar’s Quest to Document the Destruction of Poland’s Jewish Cemeteries
By Rafael Hoffman
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 1:10 pm | ט אייר תשפ א
Poland was home to one of the world’s largest and most dynamic Jewish communities until it was abruptly snuffed out during the Holocaust. The Nazis exterminated most of Polish Jewry and destroyed thousands of villages and towns, shuls and yeshivos, and other markings of over a half century of its glorious past.
Little was left within Polish borders to show for centuries of history besides the graves of thousands of Jewish communities dotting the country. As the grip of communism loosened in Eastern Europe, and far more so since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Jews from abroad have developed a keen interest in restoring and visiting the resting places of