Brama Cukermana
The Brama Cukermana Foundation preserves Jewish heritage and Holocaust history through education and community engagement.
The Brama Cukermana Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Będzin, Poland, dedicated to preserving Jewish heritage, documenting Holocaust history, and inspiring future generations through education, research, and remembrance. Since 2009, we have restored historic Jewish sites, developed educational programs, supported descendants in reconnecting with their family history, and welcomed thousands of visitors from around the world. Today, our flagship project is the preservation and development of the Będzin Ghetto Fighters’ House—one of the most important surviving sites of Jewish resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland. Through exhibitions, research, archaeological discoveries, and educational initiatives, we preserve the stories of courage, resilience, and human dignity, ensuring they continue to inspire dialogue, empathy, and civic responsibility for generations to come.
Fundraisers
Fundraiser by Don Perlstein
Preserving Memory & Building a More Tolerant World
In partnership with my cousins in Israel, who we “rediscovered“ in 2010, following an extended U.S. family trip back to our hometown origins in Sosnoviec and Bedzin in Poland, I was introduced to the extraordinary work of the Brama Cukermana Foundation in Bedzin, whose founders and circle of volunteers have been working tirelessly since 2009. (Please take the time to watch the recently released (Sept. ’26) 27 minute video attached to this campaign. It highlights Bedzin and the work of the Foundation. The last 12 minutes focuses on the Ghetto Fighter’s House. This past August, 2026 my son, Rabbi Ben Perlstein, and I spent an extraordinary few days in Poland, joining our Israeli cousin, for a first-hand look at the Brama Cukermana Foundation‘s historic sites along with its on-site and community-based educational work in action. We participated on August 3rd in the local 83rd Anniversary Memorial Observance of the Liquidation (in 1943) of the Sosnoviec and Bedzin Jewish Ghettos that they had a central role in organizing. This observance takes place two days after the National observance of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. (Rabbi Ben’s brief public remarks at the local Bedzin ceremony can be viewed on the following YouTube video: https://youtu.be/0OMrIcUhGns?si=4ZZ0hoZPd0SXpXdr (His remarks begin at minute 8:30 standing alongside Piotr Jakoweńko, BC Foundation Co-Founder, who provided Polish translation. Watch the first 8 minutes for a beautiful introduction to the event by Karolina Jakoweńko, BC Foundation Co-Founder—turn on English translation!) We have committed ourselves to personally supporting this work and are encouraging others who care about preserving Jewish memory to join us in the service of nurturing a more complex understanding of history that can lead to a more tolerant world. With your help we will enable this cutting edge program to make a huge leap forward in its mission, nurturing new understanding and relationships locally, nationally and internationally, and fully developing the recently discovered intact Jewish Ghetto Fighter’s House in Bedzin. Thank you for joining your support to ours and for any help you might lend to reach out to others. The video attached to this campaign page is a wonderful introduction to the work. —Don
- Raised
- $7,540
- Goal
- $72,000
2 supporters
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Don Perlstein 2I am so happy to have learned about the work of the Brama Cukermana Foundation this year and to support its inspiring work.
I look forward to helping build a large and growing network of supporters throughout the US and beyond.
Alan Englander 3In memory of my father, family and all his neighbors and friends who were sent to Aushwitz.
Don Perlstein 1I am happy to see the launch of a new Friends of the Brama Cukermana Foundation this year.
Sara Ergas Benjamin Perlstein To the fundraiser: Preserving Memory & Building a More Tolerant World1Robert Eisenstadt1