Jewish Heritage Europe coordinator Ruth Ellen Gruber traveled to Serbia April 8-12 on a fact-finding trip to assess the condition of two key Jewish heritage sites in the southern part of the country: the historic Jewish cemetery in Nis … continue reading →
Volunteers are being sought for a project to digitally document the important Jewish cemetery in Szydlowiec, Poland. The “Memory in Stone” project will be carried out by the ‘Szydłowiec Shtetl’ Center of the LOGOS Association in close cooperation with … continue reading →
Historian and journalist Marian Turski, Chairman of the Council for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, has been awarded the French National Order of the Legion of Honor. Turski, 86, survived the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz and … continue reading →
MACEVA, the non-profit organization founded by Lithuanian psychologist Aleksandr Avramenko and Lithuanian author Sergey Kanovich, has announced that it is digitizing, reconstructing and cleaning three more abandonded Jewish cemetery sites in Lithuania: the cemeteries in Pabrade, Dieveniskes and Utena. … continue reading →
A restoration project at the 17th Century Portuguese Synagogue Complex in Amsterdam has been awarded the European Union’s Europa Nostra prize for conservation. From the Europa Nostra web site: “Thanks to the restoration work, the Portuguese Synagogue is now … continue reading →
