Jewish Heritage Europe

Kristallnacht 2021: Three signal events — in Germany, Slovakia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina — on the 83rd anniversary of the pogrom

This week marks the 83rd anniversary of the so-called Kristallnacht pogrom — Reichspogromnacht — the night of November 9-10, 1938, when  the Nazis launched coordinated violent attacks on Jews, Jewish property, and Jewish places of worship all over Germany and German-occupied … continue reading →

Poland: Zoom talk Wednesday with Witold Wrzosinski, the director of Warsaw’s Okopowa St. Jewish Cemetery

If you’re interested in the vast Okopowa st Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, which is undergoing constant clean-up and renovation work, make sure you register and tune in on Wednesday (Oct. 27) for the Zoom in on the Forum session with … continue reading →

Poland: New online project by FODZ provides digital access to selected Jewish heritage sites in Poland

(JHE) — The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODZ) has launched a new web site and project aimed at fostering public awareness of synagogues, cemeteries and other Jewish built heritage via digital models and detailed virtual … continue reading →

New HAVE YOUR SAY: Exploring the hidden Jewish heritage on the Romanian shore of the Danube — The REDISCOVER project in Galați, and its pandemic-era online Jewish culture festival

Our new HAVE YOUR SAY essay is up, about Jewish history and heritage in Galați, a port city on the Danube in northern Romania’s Moldavia region. Over the past three years, REDISCOVER, a project financed by the EU’s Danube Transnational … continue reading →