Volunteers are invited to apply for a weeklong summer program focused on the preservation of Jewish heritage in western Ukraine. The NGO SCI (Service Civil International) is seeking 17 volunteers for a Jewish heritage preservation “work camp” based in Lviv … continue reading →
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 →
Established in the early 1890s, the vast Jewish cemetery on Kozma utca (st.) in an outlying district of Budapest is the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe, encompassing 70 hectares; more than 300,000 people are buried there, in around 175,000 grave … continue reading →
Spring is well under way, signalling the start of the Jewish Cemetery clean-up season. We hope to be able to pull together a round-up of such actions in various countries — and are listing some, such as the clean-up in … continue reading →
Young people from the Youth Network of the local Muslim community, led by local Imams, have organized a clean-up of the Jewish cemetery in Tuzla, Bosnia Herzegovina, according to the Tuzlanski.ba news site. The article on Tuzlanzki.ba said the action … continue reading →
