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Call for participants: Free, intensive online training course July 22-Aug. 19 on developing self-guided audio tours

Calling all tour guides, tour operators, teachers, individual travellers, curators  – and other interested persons! Do you want to learn how to develop self-guided mobile audio tours? The Jewish Heritage Network (JHN), the European Association for the Preservation and Promotion … continue reading →

Germany: The former New Synagogue in Görlitz reopens as Culture center after €12.6 million restoration process over the past three decades

(JHE) — After a gradual, €12.6 million renovation process carried out over the three decades since the fall of communism, the former New Synagogue in Görlitz, in eastern Germany on the border with Poland, has reopened as a cultural center, … continue reading →

Poland: Violent storm damages Krakow’s New Jewish Cemetery, with downed trees and branches damaging headstones

The New Jewish Cemetery in Krakow appears to have suffered considerable damage from a violent rain, wind, and hail storm that swept the city on Friday, July 9. Similar storms were forecast for Sunday and early Monday (July 11-12). The … continue reading →