Jewish Heritage Europe

Slovakia: Clean-up at Jewish cemetery Levoča (& video)

    The Jewish cemetery in the historic town of Levoča, Slovakia has been cleaned up thanks to the initiative of a local  Catholic youth organization, Spoločenstvo Pavol (SP),  a member  of the Slovak Association of Christian Youth Movements (ZKSM). SP … continue reading →

Turkey: New interactive digital portal to Jewish and other minorities’ cultural heritage

A new digital portal features a growing interactive map pinpointing cultural and religious sites of Turkey’s  Armenian, Greek, Jewish and Syriac minorities. Called Türkiye Kültürel Varlıkları Haritası” (Turkey’s Map of Cultural Heritages), the portal was launched by the Hrant Dink … continue reading →

Uprooted Jewish gravestones, and their return to Jewish cemeteries

  In recent years, the recovery of headstones uprooted from Jewish cemeteries during and after World War II  has become a common motif in Jewish heritage preservation. In towns, cities, and villages, Jewish cemeteries were plundered and essentially used as … continue reading →

Lithuania: Vilnius begins dismantling building constructed of Jewish gravestones

    Work has begun to remove part of an electric transformer station in Vilnius which was built during  the Soviet era using gravestones from Jewish graves of the once-vast Užupis Jewish cemetery on Olandu street, which was almost totally … continue reading →