Poland’s Jewish community—nearly destroyed during World War II—is growing again, but connecting people with their heritage is a race against time
KRAKOW, Poland—Olga Adamowska grew up with all the trappings of a Catholic childhood in Poland. She was baptized, and her family, though not very religious, had a Christmas tree every year.
That question is especially pressing in Krakow, located just 50 miles from Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp. By 1989, only a few thousand practicing Jews were left in Poland, according to Michael Schudrich, the country’s chief rabbi, a New York native who moved to Poland in 1990. “We’re trying to see how many of these people we can reach,” said Mr. Ornstein, who grew up in New York but moved to Poland in 2001 and opened the JCC in Krakow in 2008. “There’s a window that’s open now, and we understand that window won’t remain open forever.”
After learning her grandmother was Jewish, Ms. Adamowska didn’t initially understand that she was Jewish as well—a common misconception in a country where many people have never met a practicing Jew and don’t know that Judaism is passed down matrilineally.
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