Poland’s rich, pre-Holocaust Jewish history is now online with Virtual Shtetl, a project of the almost complete Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The museum’s creators launched the site last week as part of an effort to build the museum's collection even before its doors open in 2011.
"This portal has the potential to become the greatest source of information about Jewish life in Poland prior to the war," project creator and coordinator Albert Stankowski told reporters in Warsaw Tuesday. He said he hopes the site will open channels of communication and create an international discussion that will revive nearly a thousand years of Jewish life in Poland that were obliterated by the Holocaust. Three million of the six million European Jews exterminated by the Nazis came from Poland.
"This portal has the potential to become the greatest source of information about Jewish life in Poland prior to the war," project creator and coordinator Albert Stankowski told reporters in Warsaw Tuesday. He said he hopes the site will open channels of communication and create an international discussion that will revive nearly a thousand years of Jewish life in Poland that were obliterated by the Holocaust. Three million of the six million European Jews exterminated by the Nazis came from Poland.
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