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Hungary: Reclaiming a mikveh in a quaint wine-making village whose Jewish community perished in the Shoah

  Work is under way to reclaim and restore the long-abandoned old mikveh in Erdőbénye, a quaint village in the Tokaj wine region of northeastern Hungary whose Jewish community perished in the Shoah. Its private owner wants to restore it … continue reading →

Poland: Special Report on 2017 restoration work in Białystok Jewish cemetery

    Prof. Heidi M. Szpek has written an illustrated special report for JHE on the work that was carried out last summer, 2017, in the Bagnówka Jewish cemetery in Białystok, Poland, as part of the long-term restoration of the … continue reading →

Warsaw: Crowd-sourcing a preservation priority — help choose a gravestone to be restored

  Are you on Facebook? If so, you can help decide on the restoration of a grave monument in the vast Okopowa st. Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. The Foundation for Cultural Heritage has launched a Facebook campaign to choose the  … continue reading →

Moldova: new mini-doc on preservation of Jewish cemeteries

  RFE/RL has posted a video mini-documentary about Yvette Merzbacher, a woman now living in Switzerland,  who is on a personal crusade to save the Jewish cemeteries of Moldova, where her grandparents came from. Merzbacher founded the Living Stones Association, … continue reading →

Ukraine: ancient Buchach Jewish cemetery documented

  The Jewish Galicia and Bukovina organization carried out its latest annual Field School session with a thorough documentation of the old section of the centuries-old Jewish cemetery in Buchach, Ukraine. The team cleared thick vegetation from the site, which … continue reading →