A juvenile court in Saverne, Bas-Rhin, France handed down eight to 18 months suspended sentences to five young men for having desecrated the Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union in the Alsace region of eastern France, also damaging a Holocaust memorial … continue reading →
(During recent road trips visiting Jewish heritage sites in nearly a dozen towns in Ukraine, JHE Coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber took note of how rampant vegetation makes some Jewish cemeteries almost inaccessible and leads to further deterioration of the … continue reading →
Severe storms and high winds toppled trees causing damage to gravestones and tombs in the sprawling Okopowa Street Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. “We know of damaged tombstones and ohels, as well as of fallen trees,” the Warsaw Jewish community … continue reading →
We have posted a number of times about efforts to recover Jewish gravestones and their fragments that were uprooted from Jewish cemeteries and used for construction work and other purposes. Most of our posts have dealt with eastern and … continue reading →
Efforts to commemorate a destroyed Jewish cemetery and rescue its scattered headstones in the Czech town of Prostejov have met with protests that appear to be tinged with anti-Semitism — a rarity in the Czech Republic. The cemetery is question … continue reading →
