The Place - Miejsce — Attraction in Białystok

One of the most outstanding museums packed with information and relics commemorating the former Jewish communities and people of Bialystok and the region. The creator and owner Tomasz, is one of the most incredible, dedicated, knowledgeable and loving person I have ever met. The responsibility and task of managing the upkeep, and time involved , of this most important museum, lies with him, and is considerable. Tomasz is so dedicated, he even found the tombstone of a relative of mine, who is the brother of Maxim Litvinov, Stalin’s first diplomat. Please volunteer if possible, and provide donations. This is one of the most important Jewish Museums...

Stumbled across this small, lovingly curated museum of Bialystok's pre-WWII Jewish community near the Esperanto creator's bust in a nearby pocket park. You can watch a short and heart-rending documentary titled Castaways, on children thrown from deportation trains by desperate parents at nearby Lapy in the hope that they'd be adopted by kind-hearted Poles and survive. Considering that 42% of Bialystok's populace were Jewish, it's a great shame that the municipal government provides no support whatsoever - the museum relies on donations. Kudos to Tomasz, one of the progenitors of The Place, his animated guidance (in perfect English), and for...

Must see. Museum of the history of Jews in and around Bialystok. Lovingly curated by a living treasure, Dr. Tomek Wisniewski. Contains huge amounts of archival objects and information really not even known to much of the local population until fairly recently. Check out the many late...