SITE INFORMATION and WHAT'S NEW

Basic Information About This Site:

• The Zolynia Memorial site is currently maintained by Michael A. Miller, an independent researcher who works with other researchers and with the Erste Zoliner Chevre Anshei Sfard organization in New York to compile information for presentation.
  
  
• This site will work in all popular web browsers that are Version 3 or higher. However, MS Internet Explorer Version 3 will not correctly display some graphic effects, though links will function without error. You can download the MS Windows-standard Verdana and Trebuchet fonts used throughout this site if they are not already installed on your computer (if they are not installed, your browser will substitute other fonts which will work but which may alter the intended visual design).
  
  
• Only English characters are used in the spelling of Polish words (Polish characters can't be viewed correctly by most Internet users). Please contact us with any questions regarding the proper spelling of Polish words used here.
  
  
• Click on any photograph or map (left-click on PCs running MS Windows) to open a pop-up window with an enlarged view (not compatible with some old browsers Version 3 or lower).
  
• The site search script, provided by JavaScript Kit, uses the Google search engine to help users find names, places and other terms used within the site. The site search function uses all the features of a basic Google search (Google "cheat sheet"). Use quotation marks (",") to find an exact phrase.
  
  

What's New:

March 13, 2005 -- A site search function, using a script by JavaScript Kit, has been added. Users can now search for names, places and other terms on the site. Results are returned by Google.

December 12, 2005 -- New logos and revised page section graphics throughout site...New "breadcrumbs" give users their location within site on all pages...RESEARCH Section: Updated Pages of Testimony lists, including new page with names from Grodzisko Dolne, Korniaktow and Rakszawa. Added names to Immigration List and Zolynia Cemetery Plot lists. More changes coming soon...

December 14, 2004 -- HOME page: New main graphic and color scheme, revised text....OVERVIEW Section: New graphic, enlarged graphic and revised paragraph on BASIC GEOGRAPHY page. There is a new third Geography page with large map of Zolynia....IMAGES Section: There is an all-new Zolynia From Above first page and expanded second page....RESEARCH Section: All-new Pages of Testimony pages listing Zolynia names memorialized at Yad Vashem museum in Israel. There are new and updated Web Links. The Zolynia Immigrants list has been expanded and is now presented in three pages.

December 4, 2003 -- New terrain map and revised text on BASIC GEOGRAPHY pages; new photo on Research/ZOLYNIA KEHILLA AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS page; text revisions on BRIEF OVERVIEW, AFTERMATH and ZOLYNIA TODAY pages in the "Overview" section; updated information on Research/ZOLYNIA VITAL RECORDS page; revisions and additions to Research/WEB LINKS page; update of JOIN OR CONTRIBUTE TO THE ZOLINER SOCIETY page; addition of Jakob Tokarz story to HOLOCAUST, PART II page; expansion of Zolynia immigrants list on Research/ZOLYNIA IMMIGRANTS page.

May 29, 2003 -- Additional expansion of apparent Zolynia immigrants in the Research section, mainly of non-Jewish immigrants.

March 25, 2003 -- List of apparent Zolynia immigrants in the Research section has more than doubled to over 700 names, including both Jewish and non-Jewish immigrants. Revisions made to Internet Links page.

November 10, 2002 -- Have added an additional page of pre-holocaust photographs and an additional page of World War II era photographs in the Images section. Added a detailed biography of a famous Zolynia rabbi in the Reference section. Made appropriate revisions to the cemetery lists and the Internet links in the Research section.

June 2, 2002 -- The site has moved to www.zolynia.org, and the following changes have been made, by section:

Home: All pages revised and new page about joining the Zoliner Society added.

Overview: All new "Geography pages" with new maps. Small revisions, corrections and additions made to most pages of the historical narrative.

Images: Several new pages with dozens of new photographs have been added, most notably new images of Zolynia before and during the war. Some revised information in captions of several photographs previously posted.

Research: Additions made to Zoliner Chevre burial lists. Aliyah passport information added to "Miscellaneous" page.

Corrections, additions and contributions of stories and photographs are very welcome.