People, not numbersThe Popiela Family “Centrum” Foundation

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Work at the cemeteries, discoveries in the archives and the stories of the people whose names we restore.

Translated from the Polish originals. Full texts of some posts are still being translated.

137 posts

2026

  1. Wpis testowyGrybów

2024

  1. This is why we do itPodwilk
  2. Memory carved in stonePodwilk
  3. A new projectPodwilk
  4. We remember 19 AprilNowy Targ
  5. Uniformed classes, reliable as ever, in Nowy TargNowy Targ
  6. Spring in Czarny DunajecCzarny Dunajec
  7. Czarny Dunajec: guests from IsraelCzarny Dunajec
  8. Hard to believe…

2023

  1. People, Not Numbers in Switzerland
  2. Changes in Grybów, part 2Grybów
  3. Education: another tripNowy Targ
  4. Day of RemembranceNowy Sącz
  5. Changes in GrybówGrybów
  6. The restoration continuesKrościenko
  7. Changes in Czarny DunajecCzarny Dunajec
  8. In solidarity
  9. Guests in Czarny DunajecCzarny Dunajec
  10. Changes in Krościenko, part 4Krościenko
  11. Mateh AsherCzarny Dunajec
  12. We rememberNowy Sącz
  13. Changes in Krościenko, part 3Krościenko
  14. From a floor back to the cemeteryKrościenko
  15. Changes in Krościenko, part 2Krościenko
  16. A historic visit to Mielec
  17. Changes in KrościenkoKrościenko
  18. We helped
  19. A visit from volunteersKrościenko
  20. Congratulations!
  21. Educational tripGrybów
  22. Help for Oleg's family
  23. A new project in 2023Krościenko

2022

  1. Broadcast of our ceremony
  2. Promoting the project
  3. Light of memoryNowy Sącz
  4. From a rubbish bin to a billboardNowy Sącz
  5. The place of memory takes shapeNowy Sącz
  6. Photos from the construction site
  7. Ledor Wador joins us
  8. Memory carved in letters: become a donorNowy Sącz
  9. Changes on the construction siteNowy Sącz
  10. We will commemorate 12,000 victimsNowy Sącz
  11. Cleaning the cemeteriesKrościenko
  12. Czarny Dunajec and IsraelCzarny Dunajec
  13. Our work: an important visit to GrybówGrybów
  14. Anniversary of the April ActionNowy Sącz
  15. An important anniversary tomorrow: we rememberNowy Sącz
  16. Work has begun in Krościenko nad DunajcemKrościenko
  17. A love story from the town hall tower in Nowy SączNowy SączBiographies
  18. Kalman Sieradzki, Nowy SączNowy SączBiographies
  19. The Sandzer Zeitung is backNowy Sącz
  20. History competition in Czarny DunajecCzarny Dunajec
  21. A plaque for Emanuel Ringelblum at the First Secondary SchoolNowy Sącz
  22. Project timeline in Nowy SączNowy Sącz

2021

  1. The LNL 5 project in Nowy SączNowy Sącz
  2. The ceremony in Nowy TargNowy Targ
  3. People, Not Numbers: Nowy Targ 2021Nowy Targ
  4. People, Not Numbers: Nowy Targ 2021Nowy Targ
  5. Stones of memory
  6. Let us rememberNowy Targ
  7. Join usNowy Targ
  8. Marian LeksanNowy Targ
  9. First results of our workNowy Targ
  10. We will commemorate 2,861 victims by nameNowy Targ
  11. Exceptional volunteersNowy Targ
  12. New discoveries while compiling the list of victimsNowy Targ
  13. Behind the scenes of “Ukos Światła”, part 2Czarny Dunajec
  14. More matzevot have returned to the cemetery in Nowy TargNowy Targ
  15. The testimony of Chana GrassgrünNowy TargBiographies
  16. An exceptional meetingNowy Targ
  17. A remarkable meeting with guides from Israel in PodhaleCzarny Dunajec
  18. The mystery of the airfield matzevot solvedNowy Targ
  19. Cleaning in Czarny DunajecCzarny Dunajec
  20. An exceptional meetingCzarny Dunajec
  21. Cleaning three cemeteriesGrybów
  22. The story of a recovered matzevahNowy Targ
  23. A meeting at the Galicia Jewish MuseumKrościenko
  24. The Beldegrün familyNowy TargBiographies
  25. “Ukos Światła”
  26. Certificate of recognitionGrybów
  27. The funeral of the second girl
  28. The story of the girls' burial
  29. Visiting a schoolNowy Targ
  30. LonekNowy TargBiographies
  31. Zvi TurnerNowy TargBiographies
  32. More discoveries in Nowy TargNowy Targ
  33. #forthegirls
  34. Nowy Targ through the lens of Małgorzata Basiuk PhotographyNowy Targ
  35. We did itCzarny Dunajec
  36. Research in Nowy TargNowy Targ
  37. Behind the scenes of the film, part 1Grybów
  38. Lonek and LudwikNowy TargBiographies
  39. Survey in Nowy TargNowy Targ
  40. Yom HaShoah: we rememberNowy Targ
  41. Return after 76 yearsCzarny Dunajec
  42. #forthegirls
  43. People, Not Numbers and Covid
  44. Salomon DröhlichNowy TargBiographies
  45. The white dresses of the matzevot of Sala Korzennik and Rachela Pacher
  46. A tapestryNowy Targ
  47. Salomea Korzennik and Rachela PacherBiographies
  48. Dawid GrassgrünNowy TargBiographies
  49. Bronia Lieblich and Abraham HochnerNowy TargBiographies
  50. International Holocaust Remembrance DayNowy Targ
  51. Salomon KannengiesserNowy TargBiographies
  52. Julek SchneiderNowy TargBiographies
  53. Follow us on social mediaNowy Targ
  54. Announcement!Nowy Targ
  55. Coming soon…

2020

  1. Important findings about the synagogueCzarny Dunajec
  2. Frost in PodhaleCzarny Dunajec
  3. Thank you!Czarny Dunajec
  4. A film by Wojciech SzumowskiCzarny Dunajec
  5. Reading the names of 494 victimsCzarny Dunajec
  6. The matzevot have returnedGrybów
  7. A remarkable discovery in a wellCzarny Dunajec
  8. Two tonnes of graniteCzarny Dunajec
  9. Our matzevot regain their lustreCzarny Dunajec
  10. The lapidariumCzarny Dunajec
  11. Hidden in the earth, part 2: they returnCzarny Dunajec
  12. MatzevotCzarny Dunajec
  13. The site of the mass gravesCzarny Dunajec
  14. ChangesCzarny Dunajec
  15. Szlomo HorowitzCzarny DunajecBiographies
  16. The Horowitz familyCzarny DunajecBiographies
  17. Another findCzarny Dunajec
  18. Clean-up, history walk, lectureCzarny Dunajec
  19. Thank youCzarny Dunajec
  20. Another stage completedCzarny Dunajec
  21. How our monuments are madeCzarny Dunajec
  22. Work, work, workCzarny Dunajec
  23. Hidden in the earth, part 1Czarny Dunajec
  24. History hidden in the earthCzarny Dunajec
  25. History carved in stoneCzarny Dunajec
  26. A surprising discoveryCzarny Dunajec
  27. A new partner for our projectGrybów
  28. Work begins at the cemetery in Czarny DunajecCzarny Dunajec