ACTIVATE YOUR GENEALOGY: Join FJHP at IAJGS 2025

We invite you to join us in Fort Wayne, Indiana for the 45th Jewish genealogy conference presented by the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) from August 10-14, 2025. 

Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland will have a booth at the Sunday "SHARE Fair,” plus a booth in the exhibition room during the week. FJHP project leaders Hatte Blejer, Ed Janes, Jeffrey Miller, and Special Volunteer Jeri Ann Karlsberg will all be attending and are happy to share their experiences in the world of preserving the Jewish cemeteries in Poland. (Jeff and Hatte are both giving genealogy-related presentations at the conference as well.) Sponsored in part by FJHP, historian Krzysztof Bielawski, staff member of the Foundation for Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, will present two lectures, including one about his new book “The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland.”

During our FJHP Birds of a Feather meeting, he will meet informally with descendants interested in supporting or preserving their own ancestral Jewish cemeteries. Paweł Bajerlein, who has done immense work in preserving and documenting the Kożmin Wielkopolskie (Koschmin) Jewish cemetery, will also present two lectures about the Jewish history of that formerly Prussian region of Poland.

The conference will offer a significant number of lectures and programming related to Jewish-Polish topics.

Check out the conference at IAJGS2025.org. FJHP President Dan Oren is Program Chair for this year’s conference. Along with Dan, Jeri Ann Karlsberg, Krzysztof Bielawski, and Paweł Bajerlein will all be happy to share their latest insights fresh from their travels in Poland this summer. Come meet with us!​