MUSEUM Update
When the idea of a Radom Museum was born, attention was focused on highlighting the hard work and dedication of people who emigrated from Radom, Poland to Toronto, Ontario. This limited scope of vision, tunnel vision really, was the result of overwhelming flows of historical information, shared stories and extensive games of Jewish Geography. The Radomer Friendly Society, The Radomer Mutual Benefit Society, B’nai Radom, Beth Radom Congregation, BRC. Like our name, our museum concept evolves, changes and develops into a modern concept while holding strong to its roots in Poland.
Enter the Digital Age. People from all over the world have contacted us. People whose families immigrated globally, starting societies in cities around the world, individuals who had roots in Radom before the Shoah (Holocaust), during and less likely, after as well.
We have received pictures, documents, books, Siddurim, some from pre 1900, 3-dimensional artistic renditions of the Old Radom Synagogue, the Radom Jewish Cemetery before it was destroyed, even an Impressionist painting from globally renowned artist Jakob Zucker, who originated from Radom. We have received remembrances, mementos and keepsakes from Jews and Christians worldwide.
Fortunately, we have also received some much needed financial donations needed to assemble the physical museum we’re ready to house , but we have not raised the total amount needed. All donations, big or small, are very much appreciated and eligible for donation receipts. Our next immediate goal is a dedicated website where we can share our treasures and memories with every interested individual in the world and maybe even provide a platform where games of Jewish Geography might connect long-lost relatives.
Beth Radom is sincerely grateful for each and every donation of time, historical knowledge, items of memory and financial support. PLEASE, keep the donations coming. Sponsor an exhibition cabinet naming your family roots or be a silent benefactor. Tax receipts will be issued whenever possible, in accordance with CRA.
Please, dig through those boxes of keeps sakes from years ago, the ones your parents insisted you hold on to. We hope that many of you reading this now are nodding, smiling, proud of your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, family-friends – and you should be proud - look what they’ve given us!. Community, History and soon, a Museum.
Please be in touch! Email museum@bethradom.com or phone 647-727-4455.
Warm wishes for a happy, healthy and memorable 5778.
Allan Fryman,
Curator, Beth Radom Museum
Our Museum in the Canadian Jewish News
http://www.cjnews.com/living-jewish/jewish-learning/proposed-museum-pay-tribute-jews-radom
PROPOSED NORTH YORK MUSEUM TO PAY TRIBUTE TO JEWS OF RADOM
By Paul Lungen, Staff Reporter -
June 1, 2016
Allan Fryman is of an age when he starts worrying about future generations and whether they will appreciate the people who came before.
A member of Beth Radom Congregation’s board of governors, Fryman, 68, has a plan to address that. He is hoping to create a small museum in the shul’s lower lobby to recall not only the synagogue’s storied history, but also the history of the Jews of Radom and their contributions to Jewish life.
Fryman, who serves as curator of the New Beth Radom Historical Society, has obtained an artist’s conception of what the museum would look like. He envisions retaining a current glass-walled showcase featuring various artifacts and memorabilia related to the synagogue, but adding a wall-sized mural with a map of Radom, Poland, along with diagrams of immigration patterns and information about the city’s Jewish population.
On the opposite wall, near the staircase, would be a big screen TV with a looping video presentation of Radom, along with more artifacts he is soliciting from Radom families, such as ledgers, photos, paperwork, letters, flyers and even landing papers.
“It would be like a time capsule with educational opportunities for the younger generation,” Fryman said.
The Beth Radom synagogue was founded by emigrants from that Polish city who departed the old country well before the Holocaust, he said.
Prior to the Holocaust, Radom, located near the larger city of Lodz, was home to an estimated 25,000 Jews. Some were fortunate to leave prior to onset of the war, but those who remained were killed either in the ghetto established in the town or in the death camp at Treblinka.
Currently the spiritual home for about 350 families, the synagogue got its start on Beverley Street in the mid-1920s. Fryman’s immigrant grandfather, Isadore Green, was one of the founders.
Holocaust survivors who came to Toronto set up their own group, but later merged with the established Beth Radom Congregation.
Like other immigrants, Green went to work at a young age as a silversmith/metalworker.
At the time, Radomers created various societies to survive their community, among them the Radomer Friendly Society, the Radomer Mutual Benefit Society, the Radomer Aid Society and other Radom organizations, Fryman said.
Besides establishing communities in Toronto and Montreal, Calgary. Radomers immigrated to the United States, Brazil, Australia and Israel.
Fryman has been in touch with Radomers around the world through social media sites and he hopes they will support the project, either financially or through the donation of memorabilia.
He estimates it will cost around $30,000 for the museum once completed, but “$10,000 would get me started.”
Fryman believes only a handful of people know the history of the community and he would like to pass on the stories to new generations of people.
“The idea is for the younger generation to appreciate the older generation, keep their heritage and not stray too far,” he said.
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