Reunited with the family after 73 years

Photographs, documents, cutlery and sheet music secreted away by a chazan in an attic in wartime Czechoslovakia and discovered 72 years later have been reunited with his descendants in Sydney. Read more

Slovakian Jewish Renaissance

A cache of family memorabilia connected to a Sydney family discovered in the Slovakian town of Presov has brought back memories for Jana Vytrhlik a member of the Sydney Jewish Museum’s curatorial staff. Read more

An attic reveals its secret

A roof in need of repair in the Slovakian city of Presov has provided a Sydney family with memories of a precious past…a cache of photographs, documents and personal effects hidden by a rabbi before he was transported to his death in Auschwitz. Read more