Within the DFG Priority Programme 2357 – “Jewish Cultural Heritage”, the tandem project of Bet Tfila Braunschweig and the DHI Warsaw is being funded for a second phase (2025-2028). The previous researchers Zuzanna Światowy and Dr Christhardt Henschel are continuing their work with a new project entitled: "Transformation of heritage, heritage of transformation. Synagogue buildings in contemporary Poland and the legacy of post-socialist transitions". The project continues to be led by PD Dr.-Ing, Ulrich Knufinke, Bet Tfila: Research Centre for Jewish Architecture in Europe Braunschweig and Prof. Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz, German Historical Institute Warsaw
Cooperation partners are Prof. Dr Jörg Hackmann (Historical Institute of the University of Szczecin) and PD Magdalena Waligórska-Huhle (Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin) spp-juedisches-kulturerbe.de/2-phase/
Photo: Zuzanna Światowy and Dr Christhardt Henschel in conversation in the former Sensburg Synagogue (today: Mrągowo), which currently serves as an Orthodox church.
