Jewish Heritage Europe

UK: Willesden Jewish cemetery buildings put on England’s National Heritage List

  The complex of three Victorian buildings at the Willesden Jewish Cemetery in London has been entered as a Grade II site on England’s National Heritage List. According to the cemetery, it marks first time that Jewish Cemetery funerary buildings … continue reading →

Germany: Managing centuries of Jewish heritage in Erfurt

  Erfurt, in eastern Germany, has a rich Jewish history, dating from medieval times, and Jewish heritage is integrated in the promotion of the town to both tourists and local people. In an interview published recently in The Forward  (and … continue reading →

Ukraine road trip: In Brody, New Signage at Fortress Synagogue ruin & New Recognition of Jewish History

  (JHE Coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber recently visited Jewish heritage sites in more than 10 towns near Lviv in western Ukraine to observe conditions and note changes).  – – – – Built in the 1740s and heavily damaged in World … continue reading →

Poland: archaeologists probe foundations of destroyed New Synagogue in Wrocław

  In a plot of land between a kindergarten and a car park, archaeologists in Wrocław, in southwestern Poland, have revealed parts of the foundations of the monumental New Synagogue that was destroyed on Kristallnacht in 1938. “The overgrown plot … continue reading →