Poles Honor Lauterbach

Poland’s University of Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) honored Valley resident Alex Lauterbach on Aug. 13 for single-handedly collecting and sending more than 5,000 books to restore the city’s once-thriving Judaica library. Making the presentation was Polish Consul General Paulina Kapuscinska.

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Tom Tugend

September 9, 2009

For more information on the project, contact Lauterbach at {encode=”olesanka@aol.com” title=”olesanka@aol.com”}.

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