Collection relates to the work of Stanislaw Szczek (pen name: Chaim Baruch Hammer) in documenting the masonry synagogues of Galicia; the process of donating those materials to YIVO; and the plans for an exhibition and book.

Materials include: correspondence between YIVO Executive Director Samuel Norich and Research Associate Lucjan Dobroszycki and Szczek; book and exhibition project budget; monograph of a text on the stone synagogues of Southern Poland; black and white photographs of synagogues; architectual drawings of synagogues; agreement of purchase between Stanislaw Szczek and YIVO; copy of check to Szczek from Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture; grant brochures and forms; article entitled "The Past and Future of Shtetl Synagogues" by Edward Frank, Architect; and newspaper clippings