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Poland: Mazel Tov! This year’s Preserving Memory Awards are presented to honor non-Jewish Poles — including 2 young children — who preserve, protect, and promote Jewish cultural heritage and memory

Mazel tov! Ten non-Jewish Polish activists are recognized this year for their work in preserving, promoting, and caring for Jewish culture and heritage in Poland and promoting Jewish-Polish dialogue.  They are the recipients of the 28th annual Preserving Memory Awards, … continue reading →

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Call for Applications: 12th edition of the annual conservation and restoration summer work camp in the old Jewish cemetery in Alba Iulia, July 21-30.

Can you get to west-central Romania this summer? Applications are open for participants in the 12th edition of the annual conservation and restoration summer work camp in the old Jewish cemetery in Alba Iulia, July 21-30. The camp focus includes restoration … continue reading →

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New Have Your Say by Sergey Kanovich: “Brothers and Sisters in Arms, of Memory. ” German soldiers help clean-up a Jewish cemetery in Lithuania

A German soldiers cleans a matzeva in the Jewish cemetery of Dr. Cornelius , Lithuania Photo courtesy of Sergey Kanovich

For four days in mid-June, about 150 soldiers from the German Bundeswehr’s 45th Panzer Brigade joined members of the Maceva Jewish cemetery preservation group to clean up the old Jewish cemetery and Holocaust monument in Merkinė, in southeast Lithuania. The … continue reading →

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