admin According to the local newspaper Vremea Noua, the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania has reached a longterm agreement whereby the municipality of the northern Romania town of Vaslui will take over the disused synagogue for use as a cultural … continue reading →
In Vilnius, the hillside Užupis cemetery, the final resting place of some 70,000 people, was demolished under Soviet rule in the 1960s and basically used as a quarry for building material….Many of the gravestones were used to construct a stairway … continue reading →
After seven years of work, the Vilnius Jewish Library will be opening on December 16, at Gedimino Prospektas 24, LT 01013 Vilnius, Lithuania. The first Jewish library in Lithuania since the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto in 1943, it is … continue reading →
The OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) mission in Kosovo has condemned the recent desecration of the Jewish cemetery in the Kosovo capital, Pristina. Nazi swastikas were painted over a majority of the fifty tombstones, and the message … continue reading →
This is the first post on what we hope will develop into the richest source on the web of news and information on issues relating to Jewish heritage and heritage sites in Europe. Our main focus will be Jewish built … continue reading →
