Jewish Heritage Trail in Białystok


Jewish Heritage Trail in Białystok is a marked foot trail created in June 2008 in Białystok, Poland, by a group of students and doctorate candidates, who participate as volunteers at The University of Białystok Foundation.
One of the goals of the project was to generate social capital by engaging cooperation between local institutions and social groups. Project included: planning the trail, publicizing an informative booklet and map in printed and electronic version, building an interactive website of the project, marking the trail sites and opening the trail to the public with a walk around the city, publicizing teacher's materials.

Trail sites

Cytron Palace – Tobacco Factory of Faiwel Janowski – Shmuel Synagogue – Jewish Female Gymnasium of Zinaida Chwoles – Białystok Palace Theatre – Jewish Hospital – Białystok Trylling Palace – Zygmunt August Gymnasium – Sholem Aleichem Library – TOZ Sanatorium – The Hebrew Gymnasium – Mansion – Apollo Cinema – Mansion – Gymnasium of Jozef Zeligman, Jozef Lebenhaft and Jakub Dereczynski – Gilarino Miniature Theatre – Mansions of Isaac Zabludowski – Linas Chailim Charity Association – House of the Zamenhof Family – Monument to Ludwik Zamenhof – Yitzhak Malmed Plaque – Druskin Gymnasium – The Heroes of the Ghetto Uprising Monument – Cytron Synagogue – Warynskiego Street – The Modern Cinema – House of the Jakub Szapiro Family – Nowik Palace in Białystok – Tarbut – Jewish Craft School – The Barbican Mission – Białystok-Chanajki Quarter – Piaski Quarter – Rabbinical Cemetery – Piaskower Synagogue – The Monument of the Great Synagogue – The City Hall – The Jewish Cemetery – and the Cholera cemetery in Białystok.

People connected with Jewish heritage of Białystok

During the trail planning, organizers chose personages significant in the city's history city history: artists, activists, politicians, scientists and Righteous among the Nations.