I have translated the second one from the TVA network using DeepL translation software and
took the liberty of smoothing a few of the comments as needed:
Jan Jagielski passed away.
Whoever had the opportunity to walk in the Okopowa cemetery with Jan Jagielski will always remember the important sites in this burial ground. He preserved the traces of memory of Jewish communities throughout Poland and documented not only the Jewish cemetery and ghetto in Warsaw, but also other surviving synagogues, houses of prayer and Jewish cemeteries in Poland.
Jan Jagielski, researcher of the history of Jewish community in Warsaw, guide
of memorial sites, advocate of saving the traces of Jewish presence in Poland.
Jan Jagielski came to Warsaw with his parents as an 8-year-old from Lublin in 1945. He grew up as the city rose from the ruins. His great interest was the disappearing traces of Jewish life in the capital.
He matriculated at Staszic, which at that time had Gottwald as its patron saint. After obtaining a master's degree in geochemistry, he worked as a researcher for 30 years at the Institute of Industrial Chemistry in Warsaw.
He combined his passion with work in 1991. At that time he joined the Jewish Historical Institute, where he created the department for documenting material traces of the historical presence of Jews on Polish soil.
Ten years earlier he undertook the mission of caring for places and monuments connected with the culture and history of Polish Jews. He co-founded the Social Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries and Monuments of Jewish Culture, and from 1994 was its chairman.
It was his initiative to undertake numerous activities related to restoring Jewish cemeteries in small towns. He engaged young people from Poland and Israel in these works. He was the chairman of the Eternal Remembrance Foundation, established in 1993 on the initiative of the Polish Government, which deals with the restoration of Jewish monuments and the commemoration of places and events related to the history of Jews in Poland.
Warsaw. An expert and researcher on the ghetto, the Okopowa cemetery, synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Poland has passed away. He was the best guide on the traces of Jewish culture in Warsaw.
Jan Jagielski left behind a rich legacy in the field that combined his passion with his professional life. He wrote many books about the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street, Jewish monuments and the Warsaw Ghetto.
In 2009 he received the Irena Sendler awarded from the Taube Foundation for his contribution to preservation of Jewish heritage in Poland. He is also a Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta for his achievements in discovering, collecting and disseminating the truth about the Holocaust, and a recipient of the Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska awards. In 2015, he received the silver medal of Merit to Culture "Gloria Artis".
A donation in memory of Janek Jagielski, to the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw would be an
appropriate way to honor a man who so unselfishly gave so much to those of us who benefited
from his presence and his work. You can do that at: https://www.jhi.pl/en/donate
