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Slovakia: Media highlights award-winning Jewish cemetery care and educational project in Spišská Nová Ves

The news portal The Slovak Spectator highlights an award-winning Jewish cemetery project in Spišská Nová Ves, a small town in eastern Slovakia — where a teacher has used the Jewish Cemetery to teach about local Jewish history  and instill in students the responsibility … continue reading →

Kristallnacht 2020: On the 82nd anniversary, we highlight 3D virtual reconstructions of synagogues that were destroyed

(JHE) — The night of November 9-10 marks the 82nd anniversary of Reichspogrom night — the so-called Kristallnacht pogrom — in 1938, when the Nazis launched coordinated violent attacks on Jews, Jewish property, and Jewish places of worship all over … continue reading →

January 27, 2020 — Holocaust Remembrance Day. Shoah memorials that personalize those who were murdered

January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, is marked in many countries as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is an occasion for commemorative ceremonies, educational programs, and other initiatives. Monuments and memorials are also dedicated or … continue reading →

Poland: Record number of visitors to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2019

A record number of people from around the world visited the former Nazi camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau in 2019. A report on the Auschwitz.org web site said 2,320,000 people visited the sites, located in southern Poland and administered as … continue reading →