Jewish Synagogue Restoration in Przemysl can use your help!

[Marla Raucher Osborn]

Dear Descendants,

Here is the article I recently wrote for Jewish Heritage Europe concerning roof leaks discovered at the Synagogue in Przemysl - news that financially impacts the proposed plan to convert the synagogue building into a multi-cultural center now that the public library has vacated the premises ahead of the termination of its lease:

http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2014/07/22/update-on-state-of-przemysl-synagogue-new-challenges/%E2%80%9D?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=update-on-state-of-przemysl-synagogue-new-challenges

Your help is needed if this outstanding building is to be saved and Jewish history and heritage in Przemysl is to be remembered for future generations.

Warm regards from Warsaw,
Marla

[Marla Raucher Osborn]

One of our members has asked how to contribute to this worthy project - sorry for not including that information.

The Remembrance & Reconcilation foundation - a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization - was created

for the specific purpose of restoring and maintaining the Jewish cemetery in Przemysl   It is now also

the driving force behind the proposed conversion of the building to a Cultural Center.  R&R has the support

of FODZ (Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland), which is the legal owner

of the cemetery and the synagogue on behalf of the Jewish community.  I have worked closely

with FODZ on a number of projects here in Poland.

David Semmel, the founder and manager of the Przmeysl Forum and Blog is on the Board of

Directors of R&R (as am I), and I am sure he would be happy to comment further. 

David is very involved in the mechanics of the new project, and he can best advise how

to "ear-mark" any donations specifically for the new synagogue building conversion project.

There is a link to "Contribute" at the top of the R&R website:

http://www.remembrance-reconciliation.org/

I am also taking the liberty of attaching an article I have submitted for publication

to the next issue (December 2014) of Gesher Galicia's The Galitzianer. 

Please do not publicly re-print this, as The Galitzianer is for paid GG members only. 

I share it here so our group can have more information on the idea and vision behind R&R's project for the synagogue - with the hope to get some or many of you interested in financially supporting this project and/or fundraising for it. 

The photos I submitted are also attached.

Thanks and warm regards,

Marla