Jewish Heritage Europe

Poland: Memorial park commemorating the destroyed Great Synagogue in Oświęcim, the town where the Nazis built Auschwitz, wins award

(JHE) — Mazel tov! The Memorial Park project on the site of the destroyed Great Synagogue in Oświęcim, the town in southern Poland where the Nazis built the Auschwitz death camp, has received an architectural prize presented by the Małopolska … continue reading →

Germany: New ShUM Cities exhibit opens in Worms — will run for five years. Tells the history of the so-called “ShUM cities” — Speyer, Worms, and Mainz, all near each other on the Rhine river — that combined to form a major Jewish center in the middle ages.

(JHE) — A new core exhibit has opened at the Jewish Museum in Worms, Germany, telling the history of the so-called “ShUM cities” — Speyer, Worms, and Mainz, all near each other on the Rhine river — that combined to … continue reading →

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the European Days of Jewish Culture (EDJC) festival kicks off next Sunday with a wide-ranging international eight-hour online program

    Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, the annual European Days of Jewish Culture festival goes (partly) digital — it kicks off next Sunday (September 6) with an eight-hour online international program that includes a variety of virtual events including lectures, … continue reading →

Poland: The “Coalition of Guardians” is launched as a bid to link the many volunteers and projects dealing with Jewish cemeteries all over Poland; its web site links to a cemetery database

Photographing in the Jewish cemetery, Biala, Poland

A new initiative aims to foster and coordinate clean-up and restoration work at the nearly 1,500 Jewish cemeteries all around Poland. The new bid — called a Coalition of Guardians of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland — was announced by Piotr … continue reading →

Call for Tender submission: Writing historical overviews of around 1,700 Jewish cemeteries being surveyed by the ESJF

We are happy to share an invitation to submit a tender for part of a Jewish cemetery project led by the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (ESJF), working together as a consortium with the Foundation for Jewish Heritage (FJH) and Centropa. … continue reading →