Berlin’s Weissensee Jewish cemetery, covering 42 hectares and with some 115,000 burials one of the largest in Europe, is something of a nature preserve, home to a remarkably vast variety of plant and animal life, a wide-ranging survey shows. The … continue reading →
JHE friends Jay and Marla Raucher Osborn, of the Rohatyn Jewish Heritage project and Gesher Galicia, recently joined other volunteers for two days of a three-day Jewish cemetery clearing and cleaning project in Nasielsk, Poland, north of Warsaw. For them … continue reading →
Witold Wrzosiński is the co-founder and co-director of the Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland. Currently, with a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture, he is writing a Field Guide to Jewish Cemeteries, mainly aimed at … continue reading →
A centuries-old Jewish cemetery in southwestern Turkey will be restored as part of a project aimed at honoring Jewish history in the town, according to a report on the Daily Sabah news site. The cemetery in the town of Milas … continue reading →
The 19th annual “Preserving Memory” awards honoring non-Jewish Poles who preserve, protect, maintain, and promote Jewish heritage in Poland were presented at a ceremony at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow on June 26. The awards were established in 1998 … continue reading →
