Useful Websites
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- Częstochowa Jewish Museum – the permanent home of our exhibition
- Częstochowa – within POLIN Museum’s “Virtual Shtetl” project
- Częstochowa Archive Project – excellent JewishGen project
- Częstochowa Judenrat Index – microfilm at US Holocaust Memorial Museum
- The Memory of Treblinka Foundation – register the names of your family’s victims
- The Częstochowa Ghetto – from www.deathcamps.org
- 1939-1945 Chronicles of Terror – testimonies from wartime Częstochowa
- 1913 Częstochowa Business Directory & Calendar “Handlowiec” – Genealogy Indexer website
- 1925 Częstochowa Business & Telephone Directory “Informator” – Genealogy Indexer website
- 1929 Polish Business Directory – Częstochowa Section – JewishGen website
- 1933/1934 Supplement to Częstochowa Telephone Directory – Genealogy Indexer website
- Częstochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group – excellent genealogy site
- Jewish Cemetery of Częstochowa – comprehensive listing graves
- Jewish Cemetery of Częstochowa – Gidonim Mapping Project
- Joseph Sher – a Survivor’s Story – a Częstochowa survivor
- Yad Vashem Holocaust Victims Database – may they be never forgotten!
- My Częstochowa – a photographic gallery of old Częstochowa
- Generations of the Shoah International – children & grandchildren of Survivors
- Częstochowa City Council – the Municipal Offices
- National Archives in Częstochowa – trace your ancestors
- Częstochowa Municipal Museum – a guide to the city’s history
- The Częstochowa Encyclopaedia – a useful historical resource
- Częstochowa’s 800 Year History – from 1220 to 2020
- Częstochowa Gazeta Online – local edition of Gazeta Wyborcza
- Hotels in Częstochowa – from Trip Advisor
- Jasna Góra Monastery – home of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa
- Częstochowa Philharmonic Orchestra – on the site of the New Synagogue
- Gaude Mater Cultural Centre – active cultural programme
- Jan Długosz University of Częstochowa – our wonderful student friends!
- Częstochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group (CRARG) – constantly being updated
- JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing) – brilliant search engines!
- Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH) – very helpful staff
- Jewish Historical Institute’s Online Collection – view items relating to Częstochowa
- JewishGen – multiple search engines
- FamilySearch – Polish-Jewish section of brilliant Mormon website
- Szukaj w Archiwach – search Poland’s National Digital Archives
- How to Interview Elderly Relatives – very useful!
- The Jewish Community in Poland – jewish.org.pl (portal site)
- Embassy of the State of Israel – in Warsaw
- Nożyk Synagogue – Warsaw’s only surviving Orthodox synagogue
- Beit Warszawa – Progressive congregation
- Warsaw Jewish Cemetery – in Polish and English
- Jewish Historical Institute – in Warsaw
- POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews – in Warsaw
- The Virtual Shtetl – amazing site about historical Jewish Poland
- The Polish Righteous – Restoring Memory – about Poland’s heroes (in Polish and English)
- Annual Jewish Cultural Festival – in Krakow
- Missing Identity – helping Child Holocaust Survivors discover their past
- Galicia Jewish Museum – in Kraków
- Australian Society of Polish Jews & Their Descendants – Melbourne & Sydney, Australia
- Canadian Foundation of Polish-Jewish Heritage – Montreal, Canada
- Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada – Toronto, Canada
- The Chenstochover Aid Society – based in Toronto, Canada
- ZNAK Dialogue Forum – Christian-Jewish dialogue
- Forum for Dialogue Among Nations – Christian-Jewish dialogue
- Jew or Not Jew? – you’ll be surprised!
- Jewish Recipes Galore! – from kreplach to knishes!
- Maven – Jewish Web search engine