Max & myself wanted to thank you so very much for your tour ...We will never forget you. And can highly recommend you. Above all we found you to be a real "Mentch"...and a very sincere wonderful person as we say in Hebrew "KOL HAKOVOD" We look forward to hearing from you in the future in what you are doing, and if you are ever intending to come to Australia,please let us know.

Estelle & Max Dzienciol Melbourne, Australia 2008

We just said good bye to you. I want to apologize. I think i hurt you feelings in the way i asked about the teaching of tolerance. Actually I am so appreciative of the teaching you do and finally understood what your assignments did for the students. so thank you for that and i am sorry for asking in such a way. We loved our time with you and your knowledge and enthusiasm. a great introduction to Poland.

Dorothy Richard Dorsay, USA 2008

We'd like to thank u again for a most interesting visit in Bialystok. We were very impressed with your enthusiasm , knowledge and passion for the historical research. I will pass your name to any Bialysokers who intend to visit the town.

Dvora Metrany, Israel 2008

I thank you from my heart for how kind you were to me during our trip. You are a remarkable man, full of knowledge and a real understanding of how difficult life is for a thinking person. I have a high regard and opinion of Poland and the Polish people. I have felt completely safe here. When I return I shall talk to people about the real Poland, not the Jewish Poland before WWII or the Nazi Poland, but the Poland that actually exists. What is most important about you is that I can ask you "thinking questions." You have an open mind. This is rare in humankind.

Phyllis Pollack, USA 2008

We got back home last night. I am still recovering from our trip but I want to thank you so very much for everything last week. You were an excellent guide to the current situation in Poland today and you also provided us with so much understanding and insight into the Poland of the past. You helped us to find important but small, out of the way places that made a huge impression on us. Our visit was educational and inspirational. You lead us with your head – your vast knowledge – as well as with your heart.

Hillel Goelman, Vancouver, Canada 2008

Thank you for all your efforts for us in Biala Podlaska etc. We are back in Australia now and showing relatives of our wonderful experiences with you guiding us.

Les Edelman, Australia 2007

We arrived home just yesterday and we are all still talking about the wonderful and interesting time we spent with you in Poland. Thank you for the book which I will treasure always! I can't thank you enough for translating the letter and for spending extra time with the poor language...[who knew]. My colleague will be truly grateful as she is in need of all familial connection that she can amass.

Eileen Hyman, USA 2007

We can't thank you enough for the wonderful day last week. You helped us cram an unbelievable amount of learning and experience into a single day… Also, thank you for all the books and materials.

Irwin, Marilyn, Lynn Keller, USA 2007

First of all, thank you for the amazing tour that we had. The places were were amazing, and your expertise was huge. We will never forget this tour.

Anne Krantz, USA 2006

Thanks for a day we spent together. Thank you for sending the photos and translations from Maria Kulmacz. Thank you for looking at these documents. Thanks for all

Catherine Kehoe USA 2006

I arrived home late last night. I want to take this opportunity to express my deepest thanks for the most remarkable two days I have ever had. I can't thank you enough for your help and support, your time and careful consideration. You have helped me fulfill an important mission and I thank you for this. If you make it to Israel in the future please let me know so that I can offer you hospitality and make sure you have a wonderful time. Have a good year. Have a productive year.

Batya Dashevsky Izrael 2006

Thank you very much for the interesting tour we have made with you in Byalistock and Michalowo. Without you we would never be able to reach and get to those places. Thank you also for the photographs of the cemetery in Michalowo and the photo of Kupiecka street…

Isaac Berman, Izrael 2006

We arrived home just yesterday and we are all still talking about the wonderful and interesting time we spent with you in Poland. Thank you for the book which I will treasure always! I can't thank you enough for translating the letter and for spending extra time with the poor language

Eileen Hyman , USA 2005

Dear Tomek

It is several weeks since we had the pleasure to meet you and for you to guide the entire Kutner Family members on a visit to our family roots in Tykocin, Bialystok and Bransk. On behalf of myself and my entire family we want to thank you and Anna for your attention, kindness and friendship during our visit. I am sure you appreciate how very difficult it was for all of us. Your explanations, sensitivity, vast knowledge and professional approach made the visit more bearable for us. You have helped to lift some of the heavy burden I have carried for many years over what happened there many years ago.

I am pleased to highly recommend you to friends of ours who will be planning a similar trip. Thank you again. If there is any additional help you can give us with our family genealogy and history please coordinate this with my daughter Susan.

Shalom,

Susan and Sol Kutner, California, 2004

Thanks so much for the wonderful tour and introduction to my Polish roots. My daughters and I agree that it was a highlight of our two weeks in Eastern Europe. Should I run into anyone interested in a roots trip, I will be certain to recommend you to them. In the meantime, feel free to use on your website any sentences I have sent you over the last six months (or feel free to edit them to suit your needs). I also will be happy to provide a magnificent reference for anyone who asks.
Best regards,

Barry Traub, San Francisco, CA (USA), 2004

I want to thank you VERY MUCH for the wonderful time that we spent with you in Poland. You were wonderful and we learned so much. We really appreciate all the information that you shared with us and where you took us. In addition, you were wonderful to be with! Thanks again..
Best regards,

Ellen and Barry Massie, CA (USA), 2004

Dear Tomeck. One of the best parts of our 12-day trip to Poland and Berlin was meeting you. It was a special treat to be with you all day and to learn about your work. I have told everyone here about you and how Bialystok is way ahead of Warsaw in marking Jewish history. I was so happy to meet your wife, see your apartment and your country house. So thank you for all the information and the guiding and the history and the genealogy.

Elizabeth Vorenberg, 2003

Tomy: thank you for for everything. Celia and I just got back on Monday, and we have been telling everyone that our time with you was the highlight of our trip!

Lynn Gordon Rochester, New York, 2003

We are back in the US after a wonderful trip. Also, thank you for the pictures of Bransk on disk you gave us, and all your books which we are reading and enjoying. We hope to someday come back to Podlasie but for now we have wonderful pictures and film of a fantastic trip.

Kate, Evelyn and Marlon, USA

...your knowledge and guidance enabled us to understand the environment into which our grandparents were born and the challenges faced by the Jewish community in Poland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Your sensitivity and explanations caused us to feel we had "come home". The trip to Bielsk, with its enriching and rewarding stops as we traveled, has become a treasured memory.

Bunny Cherin

Tom, I'm finally back in the U.S. after a wonderful month in Poland. I would like to thank you for your assistance in visiting Jalowka and other sites. I got some of my photos back already and they tell a great story.

Merryl Kravitz, Associate Professor,
School of Education New Mexico Highlands University. Las Vegas

I want to tell you that Joanne, Benjamin and I had a wonderful time in Poland, especially the two days we spent with you around Bialystok. You made the visit very interesting for us.

Martin Freeman, Ottawa

Travel to Bialystok was great with You, Tomy.

Roy Cobb
Atlanta, GA 30328 USA

You were our family's guide a few years ago when all five of us went to Bialystok, Stuchin and Ticotin. That was maybe 1995. You had first met my husband, Richard and his Dad, Bernie a few years before I couldn't figure out how to add comments on how much we enjoyed our tours with you.

Rena Panush Family

Many thanks for making it such a special trip with much to think about. Impressions of our trip linger and haunt and disturb and delight.

Vanessa Rosenthal Walsh

Dear Tomek, It has been almost two weeks since we came back from Bialystok and I am steel under the impressions of our visit to Bialystok and region. I want to express my gratitude, first for your willingness to be our guide under a very short notice, but mainly for your excellentguidancee. It was a comforting experience for me to meet a man like you in Bialystok, in face of all the losses that we had to confront as Jews in Poland. Thank you for your humanity. Of course, we were very impressed by your extensive knowledge about Jewish life in pre-war Poland and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for yourwillingnesss to share that knowledge with us by spending so many hours with us, by inviting us to your house and by giving us your books and postcards. This was a real generous gesture on your part. I thank you also for showing us around Bialystok. It gave us, in the very short time that we had, a real feeling of the city. We havepracticallyy been, with your help, in every place that was important for us. We could not have done it without you. It is an honor for me to consider myself your friend and invite you to be in touch with us whenever you visit Israel.

Anat Eli Shab, Jerusalem

Hi Tomek, I have wonderful memories of our day in Bialystok and our various conversations.

Larry Benowitz

Hi Tomy, I just wanted to say hello and thank you once again for a wonderful and educational day I had with you last month.

Mark Ackerman

I want you to know how grateful I am for your expertise and your graciousness to the Stillmans and me the highlight of the journey.

Dr Morton G. Rivo,
San Francisco, CA

Many thanks for your wonderful tour and commentary about the Bialystok region. It certainly gave us a feel of what life was like a hundred years ago. Again many thanks for you time and good energy.

Jacque Ensign

Thank you very much for the tour of Suchowola and Tycocin. All of my family were very moved by the whole experience, and your knowledge and research were incrediblyvaluablee to us. We'll all have memories for the rest of our lives.

Alan Bennett

I cannot tell you how much we enjoyed meeting in Bialystok and touring Zabladow and Suraz. Bill and Sonia especially enjoyed seeing everything. I believe it helped them to understand the places their grandparents and great grand parents had come from and what had made them the way they were. Lastly, we want to thank you for taking us to Treblinka. That is such a nice memorial and left us with a vivid picture of the horrors of war. I can't believe how lucky I was to have found you! Again thank you for such an indepth tour. You have given us a day none of us will forget.

Connie Petlack

It was a pleasure to spend the day with you last Tuesday. I cannot believe we were over there just so few days ago now that we are back home in Saratoga. My regret is that I had lost my voice and we could not converse. Your efforts were wonderful. I know the entire group feels the same about our trip. If you should ever want to plan a speaking tour in the States, let me know. I would be happy to assist with arrangements in this area. You have so much knowledge to impart. I have been enriched and I am encouraged to find people like you who have so much to contribute. Thank you for all that you do.

Marcia Kaplan

You were a wonderful host and guide on May 29 in Bialystok. I will keep in touch and will write more another time.

Don Kanel,
Madison Wisconsin

Dear Tomy - Jerry and I have returned from our trip. All the European cities we visited were wonderful, but the side trip to Bialystok was the best! Thank you for showing us the area, particularly Tykocin. Thanks once again for a wonderful tour. I also have wonderful photos, will send some.

Ellen McGuire

It is I who must thank you for providing an excellent day. Thanks.

Michael H.Traison