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.
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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. This past August, 2026 my son and I spent an extraordinary few days in Poland, joining our Israeli cousin, for a first-hand look at the Brama Cukermana historic sites alongside 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, which takes place two days after the National observance of the Warsaw Uprising (of 1944). (Rabbi Ben’s brief public remarks at the local Bedzin ceremony can be viewed on the YouTube video on this page, starting at 8:30 standing alongside Piotr Jakoweńko, BK Foundation Co-Founder, who provided Polish translation. Watch the first 8 minutes for a beautiful introduction to the event by Karolina Jakoweńko, BK Foundation Co-Founder—turn on English translation!) We have committed ourselves to personally supporting its 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. —Don
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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 I am happy to see the launch of a new Friends of the Brama Cukermana Foundation this year.