The students were greeted by our friends Elżbieta Ferenc and Robert Kamela from the Adulam Foundation, who took care of all the logistic arrangements, Marcin Bucian and Piotr Pałgan guided the students in all the required work.

It was an especially exciting visit for two specific students. As the students began cleaning, the twin sisters, with the help of Marcin and Piotr, Ruth and Gail Pablokis searched for and found the grave of their great-grandfather, Ishaiah Honikman,  who died in Częstochowa in 1904, at the age of only twenty-six. Finding a specific grave in this large cemetery is no easy feat. However, it was made possible thanks to the mapping work of the Gidonim, students of Reut High School from Jerusalem, historian Wiesław Paszkowski and records maintained by World Society Vice-President Alon Goldman.

After finding the broken matzevah, covered in vegetation and dirt, Ruth and Gail cleaned it, all the students gathered around the grave and performed a short ceremony.

As a souvenir, Ruth and Gail received a certificate from the Częstochowa Veterans Organization in Israel, which featured a photograph of the matzevah, a photograph of the original death certificate of their great-grandfather Ishaiah Honikman in handwritten in Polish and which was translated into Hebrew by Alon Goldman.

After about two hours of work the students continued on their way.