The Karpens’ Ancestral Home: 1993-2018

Photographs and Articles

Birthplace of Moritz Karpen in 1823. Pudewitz, Posen (now Pobiedziska, Poznań):

Article by Emily C. Rose, 1993 after her first visit to Wongrowitz (Wągrowiec), Birthplace of Johanna Cohen Karpen and the 8 Karpen Sons:

Articles about Emily C. Rose, 2000 and 2006:

Articles and Exhibits about the Karpen Family to 2016:

Exhibition and Tours about the Karpen Family, 2017:

Video connected with Exhibition, 2017:

 Tour in 2017. Karpen home (5:00-7:00)

Emily C. Rose’s trips to Wongrowitz, Posen  (now Wągrowiec, Poznań):

Although Nazi soldiers had wanted to use the Wongrowitz Synagogue as a storeroom, in 1940 it was torn down by the local German Nazis:

The Wongrowitz Jewish Cemetery was desecrated by the Nazis; they used the headstones to shore up the Struga Golaniecka riverbed. During the Communist era, the cemetery was closed, and in 1967 the site was leveled for a park:

 A lapidarium of headstones at the site of the former Jewish Cemetery was created in 2001:

A Memorial Monument at the site of the former Jewish Cemetery was erected in 2001:

Inscription in Hebrew, Polish, and German:

To the Polish Jews who co-created this city for hundreds of years.

Footstone Inscription in Polish and German:

At this place is found the Jewish Cemetery existing until the World War [II] whose remains of the tombstones were taken out of the Struga Golaniecka riverbed by the participation in the Summer of Year 2001 of an International Young Peoples Group from Germany, Hungary, and Poland. November 2001.

Events AND Publications:

Danuta Chosińska,the founder of the History Blog, Wagrowiec1381, wrote about Solomon Karpen.

2017 Booklet-pps. 34-37 Karpen