On September 14, 2010, the Fundacja Beiteinu Chaj-2004 had the honor and great pleasure to welcome Mr. Bernhard Brasack, Consul General of the German Federal Republic and his wife, Mrs. Elin Magnuùsson at the historic synagogue of Dzierżoniów / Reichenbach.
Mr. and Mrs. Brasack spent more than four hours in and around the old synagogue, enjoying a rich program that included a luncheon served in the synagogue. The City of Dzierżoniów was represented by Mrs. Ostrowska, deputy mayor. The Lutheran Church was represented by Pastor Leszek Wierzbicki, the Catholic Church by Vice Deacon Father Jarosław Leśniak.
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Jointly with the Kreisau/Krzyżowa Foundation of Mutual Understanding, the Fundacja Beiteinu Chaj–2004 organized an International Seminar for Students focused on the postwar Jewish Community of Dzierżoniów / Reichenbach. The project had the title “The Jewish Yishuv in Reichenbach / Dzierżoniów in Lower Silesia after the Second World War – Individual and Collective Memories.”
The project was funded by the “Geschichtswerkstatt Europa.”
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We are pleased to announce that, jointly with the Kreisau / Krzyżowa Foundation of Mutual Understanding, the Fundacja Beiteinu Chaj – 2004 will proceed with a International Seminar for Students focused on the postwar Jewish Community of Dzierżoniów / Reichenbach:
CfA: International Seminar for Students
„The Jewish Yishuv in Reichenbach/Dzier?oniów in Lower Silesia after the Second World War- Individual and Collective Memories“, 23.04. – 03.05. 2010, Kreisau / Krzyżowa, Poland
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Intense preparations preceded the celebration of the Jewish New Year that began at sunset September 18 and ended at nightfall September 20.
During the first two weeks in September, several large restoration projects were completed in time for New Year: all windows were permanently glassed in, including the round window, high on the entrance side that carries a Star of David; the rooms on the lower floor and upstairs the prayer room were painted and eight new doors were installed; the final act of this phase of restoration was the opening of the front door that had been bricked up years ago to keep out vandals and other undesirable visitors.
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Reunion 2009
Author: Mrs. Eugenia Hinton Pocalun
For our Foundation and for our Synagogue this Jewish high holiday that begins at sunset September 18, 2009, and ends at nightfall September 20, 2009, is a memorable event for more than one reason.
The main entrance to the synagogue that has been bricked up for many years will be broken open before the holiday and the entrance restored with wooden doors, ready for the first religious service in more than thirty years.
It is symbolic that on this occasion there will be the first reunion in over forty years of about 50 Jews in their 50s and 60s who used to attend the prayer services in the synagogue as young people, before they were forced to leave Poland because of the oppression of the Communist regime of that time.
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