After a long break over the summer, we are delighted to post a new Have Your Say personal essay, “Marburg and Its Jewish Stories,” by Dr. Susanne Urban. In December 2021, Susanne moved to the university town of Marburg to … continue reading →
In Poland and in the Czech Republic, two significant Holocaust memorials have been unveiled in recent days. NOWY SĄCZ, POLAND, August 28 The powerful new memorial lists the names of around 12,000 Jews from Nowy Sącz and its surroundings deported by … continue reading →
So far this year, we’ve published three round-ups listing scores of the many Jewish cemetery clean-up initiatives taking place this spring and summer in various European countries. Here’s a fourth! (Click to see our previous listings posted in April, in May, and July.) This fourth round-up lists … continue reading →
It’s a pleasure to re-visit Jewish heritage sites and see the progress on (or completion of) projects we’ve posted about before (or when) they got under way. Just four years ago, in September 2018, we visited the Jewish cemetery in … continue reading →
(JHE) — Exciting news — The removal of Jewish gravestones buried under an artificial mound outside the walls of the Bagnowka Jewish cemetery in Białystok — which we wrote about last week — has been completed, with a remarkable 120 … continue reading →
