Activists from Forum’s Leaders of Dialogue network have been doing maintenance works at local Jewish cemeteries. On July 9th, Joanna Potaczek, Artur Górecki, Adam Lorenc, Magdalena Zykiert, Jacek Koszczan and Jerzy Dębiec, aided by a group of inmates from the nearby Łupków penitentiary facility, have been clearing the cemetery in Wola Michowa.

They also commemorated the memory of the Wola Michowa Jewish community destroyed on July 10th, 1942. The event was attended by local history experts, staff and inmates of the Łupków penitentiary facility, scouts from the Krosno ZHP Detachment, representatives of the clergy and local authorities, including Małgorzata Majka-Onyszkiewicz of the Podkarpacie Province National and Ethnic Minorities Office and the Mayor Roman Bzdyk and his deputy Paweł Rysz, as well as local residents. The ceremony included history, memories, and an ecumenical prayer. The names of the people buried at the cemetery were read out loud, and the ceremony finished with the scout troop singing “Cisza” next to the honorary guard positioned at a recently found tombstone.

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