Last week we posted about efforts to clear, clean up and maintain the vast, and largely overgrown, Kozma utca Jewish cemetery in Budapest. We focused on the work of the privately funded non-profit, Friends of the Budapest Jewish Cemetery, which … continue reading →
Tonight begins Yom ha Shoah, Israel and the Jewish world’s annual day of remembrance of the Holocaust. As we have done in the past (and also on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January), we highlight some of the many monuments … continue reading →
Nominations are open for the 2020 World Monuments Fund Watch list of endangered heritage sites — a recognized way of drawing attention to projects aimed at saving the sites. The 2020 World Monuments Watch will include 25 sites from around … continue reading →
Nine mid-sized cities in Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina are taking part in an EU-funded, trans-border tourism and educational project under the title “Rediscover, expose and exploit the concealed Jewish heritage of the Danube Region.” The … continue reading →
A project is under way to restore the long-neglected graves of scores of Holocaust victims in Stockholm and to commemorate and identify those buried. The graves in question — whose markers are sunken into the soil and located in a … continue reading →
