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Jewish heritage tourism in Poland often directs visitors to Krakow and Warsaw, yet in Podlasie, in the country's east, some of the most remarkable and least-visited remnants of Jewish life in Europe await discovery. This region holds significant but little-known Jewish heritage sites, ranging from historic synagogues to the final traces of communities annihilated during the Holocaust. We start in Orla, where the village mayor is spearheading the restoration of a seventeenth-century synagogue that had long lain abandoned for decades.