December 15, 2025 at 10:05 am in Past Trips
In October of 2025 thirty-two people participated in our ten day trip to Poland. Some had visited Poland numerous times and others were first timers, but the group bonded exceptionally well as fellow Gombiners. The group, a true reflection of modern-day Gombiners, ranged from babies to octogenarians. We visited important sites of Jewish and Polish history, such as the Polin Museum in Warsaw and the European Solidarity Center in Gdansk. Our experiences included making pierogies,… Read More »
December 15, 2025 at 9:58 am in Past Trips
In April of 2022 four Gombiners traveled to Gombin for a commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Deportation of the Jews of Gombin to the Death Camp at Chełmno nad Ner. The students and administration of the Staszica School, along with the people and civic authorities of Gąbin, provided a truly wonderful three days of experiences. On Friday we were fortunate to be able to visit the interior of the former Polonia Theatre, the… Read More »
July 2, 2024 at 12:27 pm in What's New with Gabin
We are bringing back the Gombin Society Newsletter after a gap of seven years. We hope you will enjoy it. Please CLICK HERE to see it. Be sure to take our survey about an upcoming trip to Poland embedded in the Newsletter! To find the earlier issues of B’nai Gombin click on the box on the Home page which says Read our Newsletter or CLICK HERE
May 23, 2023 at 7:41 am in Virtual Gombin Archives
Virtual Gombin #15 happened on June 18, 2023: 10am Pacific, 1pm New York, 6pm London, 7pm Warsaw, 8pm TelAviv Presentation made by USHMM curators, Susy Snyder and Vincent Slatt. Highlights include brief tours of the family photo collections, the 1937 Sam Rafel film, and the recently discovered testimony by a witness of the Nazi invasion of Gombin during the very early days of WWII; these documents were hidden and are known as The Ringelblum Archive,… Read More »
March 3, 2023 at 2:57 pm in Virtual Gombin Archives
Virtual Gombin#14 happened on Sunday, March 26th, 11am Pacific, 2pm EST, 7pm London, 8pm Warsaw, 10pm Tel Aviv. Katarzyna Martinovic is a PhD candidate at the University of Heidelberg – Hochschule für Jüdische Studien. Her dissertation focuses on the identity, culture, and literature of the Zionist-oriented Jewish youth in interwar Poland. She holds an MA in Jewish Museum studies from Heidelberg, an MA in Polish Studies at the University of Wrocław, a BA in Modern… Read More »
February 6, 2023 at 12:14 pm in Virtual Gombin Archives
Virtual Gombin #13: February 26, 2023: DNA and Family History – Michael Shade Michael Shade is a British genealogist and a member of the Gombin Society Board. He has contributed extensively to genealogical research related to his family from Gombin and elsewhere in Poland and Belarus, and has spoken at Conferences of the International Associaltion of Jewish Genealogical Societies. See some of his presentations and posts at: . His Gombin ancestors include: Frankensztajn, Zegelman, Szczawinski and Chern,… Read More »
January 6, 2023 at 8:58 am in Virtual Gombin Archives
January 29, 2023– Anita Greenbaum Brush: “President’s report”; Bernie Guyer: “Historical context for Gombin Society’s 100 years”. If you missed attending the 2022 Members Meeting in Washington DC in November, 2022, you now have an opportunity to view the zoom recordings of two presentations: Anita Greenbaum Brush will report on the exciting new Society activities and in Gąbin and introduce our new partners in Poland. Bernie Guyer will briefly review the work of the Gombin… Read More »
April 16, 2022 at 10:55 am in Virtual Gombin Archives
On Sunday, April 24, 2022, Virtual Gombin #11, was hosted from Gąbin by members of the Gombin Society who traveled to Poland to participate in several days of activities related to the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the destruction of the Jewish community in 1942. Anita Greenbaum Brush, Vicki Fingeroot, Marlene Rifkin, and Michael Shade hosted a Zoom call, along with Wojtek and Karen Wasilewski and our partner organizations, reviewing the activities at the… Read More »
February 15, 2022 at 3:55 pm in What's New with Gabin
“We go on living” A plaque commemorating the Jewish community of Gąbin was unveiled in the Old Market Square on June 9, 2021. The installation was an initiative of the Gombin Jewish Historical and Genealogical Society and the Mayor of Gąbin. Thanks to online communication, descendants of Gąbin’s Jews and others from all over the world participated in this emotional, historical moment. Engraved photographs are either historical images or photos of Wasilewski’s model synagogue reconstruction. … Read More »
February 15, 2022 at 3:13 pm in Virtual Gombin Archives
Why does Gombin, 80 years after Jews last lived there, still have a hold on the memory and hearts of several generations of Gombin descendants? Anita Greenbaum-Brush and a panel of Gombin Board members- Vicky Fingeroot, Elissa Klinger, Lindsey Max– will explore what Gombin means to them. This will include questions like; what did they learn about Gombin from their family? what did they hope to find in seeking information about and connection to Gombin?… Read More »
