Following concerns raised by the Jewish community and an appeal by Lithuania’s Chief Rabbi, authorities in the northern town of Šiauliai are halting excavation of human remains at a Holocaust-era mass grave site that was discovered last week during … continue reading →
The chief rabbi of Lithuania and Vilnius, Chaim Burshtein, has issued an appeal to halt the excavation of human remains at a Holocaust-era mass grave site that was discovered last week during road construction in Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. … continue reading →
Italy’s Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage has launched interactive maps of Jewish heritage sites in Italy. One map pinpoints a variety of sites and provides basic information. Another provides more detailed information on “unmissable” sites in and around a handful … continue reading →
A Holocaust memorial was unveiled this week at the Jewish cemetery on Sochaya Street in Minsk, Belarus to commemorate Jews who were deported from Königsberg and East Prussia to the Minsk ghetto in June 1942 and were then deported to their deaths … continue reading →
We are please to post links to two upgraded and expanded Jewish heritage web sites — Yerusha, which links Jewish archives across Europe, and the AEPJ, the Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage. Yerusha Literally translated … continue reading →
