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The
Gombin Society was created in 1995 by people from younger Gombiner generations
who are keen on celebrating family roots, remembering the Jewish civilization
that flourished in Poland, and bearing witness to the murder of thousands
of Gombiners during the Holocaust. In these four years of activity,
dozens of participants from several countries have joined the society's
daily exchanges through electronic mail. More than two hundred families
receive the newsletter BNAI GOMBIN, which is distributed free in English
and Hebrew versions, and the group works in collaboration with the senior
landsmen Gambiner organizations from Israel, New York, and New Jersey.
Every other summer, the society organizes a Gombiner Annual Gathering
that brings together Gombiners of all generations. The Gombin Society
is officially registered in the United States as a nonprofit organization
that seeks to educate Gombiner descendants and the public about the
history and genealogy of the Gombin Jews. Thanks to the work of its
members, it has been able to obtain and publish substantial amounts
of information about the Gombin Jewish community. In the process, a
variety of pictorial materials and documents have been collected, and
the society continues to encourage descendants to investigate their
family trees, re-establish contact with relatives and friends, and document
Holocaust victims from Gombin. In 1997, the directors of the Gombin
Society decided to undertake special initiatives to restore and protect
the Jewish Cemetery in Gombin and to dedicate a memorial to the Gombin
Jews at the Chelmno extermination camp. These projects were successfully
completed in the course of 1998 and 1999.
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