The Gidonim Project – The Reut School

After eight years of hard work, the Gidonim Project of the Reut School has completed mapping the Jewish cemetery in Czestochowa, Poland, and returned to Israel with a great feeling of satisfaction!

Since the summer of 2004, a delegation of the Gidonim project including new and veteran alumni as well as teachers from the Reut School travels to repair and document Jewish graves in Poland.

Congratulations to the members of the delegation and their leaders, teachers Dina Weiner and Danny Kahn, who worked hard in sunshine and pouring rain. This year, young Poles from the local area also joined them, along with members of the Matzeva Project from the U.S., who worked with them in the cemetery. Members of the delegation also had a moving visit with Mr. Sigmund Rolat, who was born in Czestochowa and is chair of the North American Council of the World Society of Czestochowa Jews and their Descendants, and who made a major donation to support the delegation. Alon Goldman, the chair of the World Society of Czestochowa Jews and their Descendants, who helped a great deal with raising the funds that enabled the work of the delegation, accompanied the group and helped in all matters.

Congratulations on having done an amazing and very important job!