The Jewish community in Gdansk has launched an urgent appeal for aid in saving the only preserved synagogue building in the city, whose ceiling recently collapsed. Community president Michal Samet says that total replacement of the roof as well a total … continue reading →
Jewish cemetery notes…. recent clean-ups, guided tours, vandalism…. VIENNA: About 60 volunteers staged a clean-up action at Vienna’s disused and overgrown Währinger Jewish cemetery on Nov. 2, All Souls’ Day, organized by the Green Party. The action was part of a regular … continue reading →
Vice.com runs a compelling article by Kate Samuelson about the city of Brest, Belarus and the extent to which Jewish tombstones were used in post-war construction there. We posted about this situation in June. Some 450 matzevot were recently discovered during construction of … continue reading →
A number of cemetery clean-ups and other initiatives and developments have taken place in Poland in recent weeks — and also some vandalism. We have reported on some of them, but here are notes about others. Virtual Shtetl has also … continue reading →
Good news from Lithuania. Restoration work has been completed on the interior of the sanctuary of the so-called Red Synagogue in Joniškis (Yanishok), Lithuania, one of two side-by-side 19th century synagogues in the town that form one of Lithuania’s most important … continue reading →
