Last week, a group of volunteers spent a day cleaning up the New Jewish Cemetery in Krakow, raking leaves, cutting brush and generally clearing debris. The vast cemetery, founded in 1800, after the city’s 16th century Old Cemetery was closed, … continue reading →
On his Vanished World blog, Christian Herrmann reports on the work of volunteers who spent three weeks in August cleaning up the vast Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) Ukraine, clearing it of the weeds, vines, bushes and other other vegetation … continue reading →
A clean-up operation in the old Jewish cemetery in Narew, southeast of Bialystok in eastern Poland near the border with Belarus, will take place Sept. 20, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Virtual Shtetl reports that the meeting place for volunteers … continue reading →
Notes on recent (or ongoing) cemetery restoration and preservation projects around Europe On his Vanished World blog, Christian Herrmann reports on the start August 9 of the SVIT work camp to clean up the vast Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) … continue reading →
Clean-up and restoration work starts Aug. 1 in the Jewish cemetery in Myslowice, in southern Poland, thanks to pressure on municipal authorities by local citizens and activists, writes the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper. The cemetery situated on ul. Gwarków is … continue reading →
