Jewish Heritage Trail in Białystok is a marked foot trail created in June 2008 in Białystok, Poland, by a group of students and doctorate candidates, who participate as volunteers at The University of Białystok Foundation.
One of the goals of the project was to generate social capital by engaging cooperation between local institutions and social groups. Project included: planning the trail, publicizing an informative booklet and map in printed and electronic version, building an interactive website of the project, marking the trail sites and opening the trail to the public with a walk around the city, publicizing teacher's materials.
Cytron Palace (today's Historical Museum) – Tobacco Factory of Faiwel Janowski – Shmuel Synagogue – Jewish Female Gymnasium of Zinaida Chwoles – Białystok Palace Theatre – Jewish Hospital (now Maternity Hospital) – Białystok Trylling Palace – Zygmunt August Gymnasium (now Sigismund Augustus High School) – Sholem Aleichem Library – TOZ Sanatorium – The Hebrew Gymnasium (now Municipal Hospital) – Mansion (ul. Sienkiewicza 26A) – Apollo Cinema – Mansion (ul. Sienkiewicza 26A; now State Theatre Academy) – Gymnasium of Jozef Zeligman, Jozef Lebenhaft and Jakub Dereczynski – Gilarino Miniature Theatre – Mansions of Isaac Zabludowski – Linas Chailim Charity Association – House of the Zamenhof Family – Monument to Ludwik Zamenhof – Yitzhak Malmed Plaque – Druskin Gymnasium – The Heroes of the Ghetto Uprising Monument – Cytron Synagogue (now Art Gallery of the Slendzinskis) – Warynskiego Street – The Modern Cinema – House of the Jakub Szapiro Family – Nowik Palace in Białystok – Tarbut (today Maria Grzegorzewska Craft School) – Jewish Craft School (now The Faculty of Physics at The University of Białystok) – The Barbican Mission (today's Syrena cinema) – Białystok-Chanajki Quarter – Piaski Quarter – Rabbinical Cemetery (today's Central Park in Białystok) – Piaskower Synagogue – The Monument of the Great Synagogue – The City Hall – The Jewish Cemetery (Wschodnia street) – and the Cholera cemetery in Białystok.
During the trail planning, organizers chose personages significant in the city's history city history: artists, activists, politicians, scientists and Righteous among the Nations.
Zygmunt Białostocki - composer, pianistZygmunt Bobowski - painter, member of the artists' group Czapka FrygijskaWiktor Bubryk - dramatic director, manager of theatre of miniatures "Gilarino"Roza Bursztejn (Rosa Raisa) - operatic singerIzaak Celnikier - painterJózef Chazanowicz - doctor, Zionist activist, founder of National Library of IsraelMolli Chwat - painterZinaida Chwolesowa - foundress of female high schoolSzmuel Cytron - the manufacturer, founder of synagogue, original owner of palace near Warszawska 37Szymon Datner - historianDawid Druskin - the founder of high schoolMichał Duniec - painter, member of the bialystokers artists' group Forma-Farba-FakturaOsip Dymow - dramatistNachum Edelman - painter, member of the bialystokers artists' group Forma-Farba-FakturaLeo Fink - the manufacturer, activist of Jewish organizations in AustraliaEster Gessen - the journalist, translator, author of the memoirs "Drogi, ktorych nie wybieramy"Chajka Grossman - fighter of the Białystok ghetto, Israeli politicianNatan Gutman - painterZbigniew Antoni Huzarski - Righteous among the NationsFajwel Janowski - manufacturerKalman Kaplansky - politician, human rights activistBoris Kaufman (Dżiga Wiertow) - the movie operator, documentalist, laureate of OscarJózef Kerszman - ophthalmologist, social workerGustaw Kerszman - microbiologist, geneticistChaim Jakub Lipszyc - sculptor, painterMaxim Litvinov - Soviet diplomatJuliusz Krajewski - painter, member of the artists' group Czapka FrygijskaHelena Malarewicz-Krajewska - painter, one of the first representatives of socialist realismIcchok Malmed - a hero of Białystok ghettoZajnwel Messner - sculptorHersz Mersik - creator of Białystok ghetto archiveSzmuel Mohylewer - rabbi, founder of school and credit companySonia Najman (Nora Ney) - actressChaim Nowik - manufacturer, original owner of palace near Lipowa 35Felicja Raszkin-Nowak - writer, survivor of the Białystok ghettoBencjon Rabinowicz - painterOskar Rozanecki - painterAlbert Bruce Sabin - inventor of an oral polio vaccineCzesław Sadowski - painter, member of the Białystok artists' group Forma-Farba-FakturaSimon Segal - painter, graphic artist, designer of fabricsMenasze i Efraim Seidenbeutel - paintersHayyim Selig Slonimski - astronomer, inventor, grandfather of writer Antoni SłonimskiYitzhak Shamir - Prime Minister of IsraelJakub Szapiro - journalist, popularizer of Esperanto, founder of Ludwik Zamenhofs Association of Esperantists in BiałystokMordechaj Tenenbaum - leader of Białystok Ghetto UprisingHelena i Chaim Tryllingowie - the manufacturers, original owners of palace near Warszawska 7Ichiel Tynowicki - painter, member of the Białystok artists' group Forma-Farba-FakturaMax Weber - painterIzaak Zabłudowski - tradesman, philanthropistLudwik Zamenhof - inventor of EsperantoJózef Zeligman - founder of multicultural high schoolNahum Zemach - the organizer of Habima Theatre, The Jewish National Theater in Tel AvivHenryk Złotkowski - Righteous Among the Nations
