MACEVA, the non-profit organization founded by Lithuanian psychologist Aleksandr Avramenko and Lithuanian author Sergey Kanovich, has announced that it is digitizing, reconstructing and cleaning three more abandonded Jewish cemetery sites in Lithuania: the cemeteries in Pabrade, Dieveniskes and Utena. … continue reading →
The Lithuania Jewish Cemetery Project has completed the full digitalization of the Pabrades Jewish Cemetery. Photographs, epitaphs, inscriptions, translations, even a video — all now online. Mazel tov! ShareTweetSharePin
The Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie, near Bialystok in northeastern Poland, was vandalized the night of March 18. Monika Krawczyk, the CEO of FODZ, the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, reports that police are investigating … continue reading →
The Jewish cemetery in the village of Derechin near Zelva in Belarus has been damaged by workers cutting down trees and letting them fall on the stones, reports the Russian online publication “Charter ’97.”
The report says the damage was carried out by an agricultural cooperative “under the guise of ‘improvement'” of the cemetery. (The Belarus Jewish Heritage Research Group had already reported the long-neglected cemetery as “ruined.”)
Hoop Lane cemetery, one of London’s oldest Jewish burial places (it opened in 1897), will begin offering tours late this month featuring the graves of celebrities buried there. As the Jewish Chronicle reports: Cellist Jacqueline du Pre, rabbis Leo … continue reading →
