According to pictures on the Gazeta Wyborcza Lublin edition web site, progress has been made on a housing estate in Bilgoraj, in southeast Poland, that is being constructed as something of a living “shtetl skansen” — or open air shtetl museum. … continue reading →
The Jewish Museum of Belgium, located in Brussels, has inaugurated a new exhibition hall dedicated to the Shoah. Designed under the direction of curator Daniel Dratwa, it includes mostly original documents and objects, some of them made by prisoners at the … continue reading →
Christian Herrmann has provided an update on the recently discovered murals he saw in a small room of the Groisse Shil — Great Synagogue — in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), now used as a carpentry workshop. He writes on his Vanishing World … continue reading →
How has digital photography and the demise of photo prints changed the way we store and document? Once you have a digital camera — or smartphone, photographs are basically free. You no longer have to worry about coming to … continue reading →
We gladly repost this call for applications for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) fellowships 2014: EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) invites applications for its fellowship programme for 2014. The EHRI fellowships are intended to support and stimulate Holocaust research … continue reading →
