This old truth could be applied also for our current complicated times. Many activities of ŽNO Žilina are now limited or completely cancelled. After many years, we could not meet at the seder dinner, we do not come in contact at the ŽNO Club and we even had to cancel...
We would like to bring your attention to the video that appeared on the internet and captures the story of the Žilina New (Neological) Synagogue - its history, reconstruction and presence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mSdW51rvHI&feature=youtu.be
Revitalization of the Jewish cemetery in Kysucke Nove Mesto continued with more works in second half of September 2019. At this stage, tombstones were first removed from clay and municipal waste. On Wednesday, 18 September 2019 eight young people cleaned the cemetery of wind dispersed woods, stones and waste and...
On Thursday, 17 October 2019 employees of Institute of Forest Ecology SAS (Slovak Academy of Sciences) in Zvolen made measurements of two trees (maples) in our cemetery using an acoustic tomograph. The work of experts from SAS in Zvolen will result in assessment that will determine stability of trees. Based...
Revitalizing works on the Jewish cemetery in Kysucke Nove Mesto continued during two days in the first half of April 2019. Wind dispersed woods cut off on 30 March 2019 were shredded and one week later the cemetery was cleared out of branches, stones and other waste which was moved...
Since Wednesday 15 May 2019 a commemorative plaque is placed on the wall of Western stand of the MŠK Žilina football stadium. In this way the football club MŠK Žilina pays tribute to more than 250 Jewish prisoners who built foundations of this stand during their forced labour of World...
Revitalization of the Jewish cemetery in Kysucke Nove Mesto continued with the third stage which took place at the end of March 2019. The first stage of revitalization took place in the middle of September 2018 and the second one at the end of October 2018. We informed you about...
At the end of October the second stage of revitalization of the Jewish Cemetery in Kysucké Nové Mesto took place during which wind dispersed woods were removed from about half the size of the cemetery and three bags of waste were collected. Removal of wind dispersed woods from the rest...
On Monday 17 September 2018 Juraj "Bebo" Pollák left us forever at the age of 94 years. We would like to remind you of him not only via a photo but also via a radio session from the cycle Encyclopaedia of the Fair Ones under the name Angels, which was...
At the beginning of July we informed you that we are preparing the possibility of ordering a new book "Židia v Žiline - osobnosti" (Jews in Žilina - Personalities) together with an already possible chance of ordering the book "Židia v Žiline" (Jews in Žilina) directly via an ordering form...
