Two projects aimed as preserving and valorizing Jewish history and heritage and in two seacoast cities — Brighton, on the English Channel and Grimsby, on the North Sea — have received National Lottery Heritage funded grants. One is the ongoing … continue reading →
This autumn, around 2,500 fragments of matzevot were extracted from beneath the parking lot of the City Hall in Janów Lubelski, a small town near Lublin in eastern Poland. The Nazi German occupiers had used them to build three underground … continue reading →
Restoration work involving 23 gravestones in the historic Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague was carried out this year by the Prague Jewish Museum, as part of its ongoing work in the cemetery. The museum announced in a Facebook post that … continue reading →
The long disused synagogue building in Poznan — which the Nazis turned into a swimming pool — is up for sale, with the asking price of 35 million zloty (€8.2 million). Any conversion must include a space for a local … continue reading →
Thanks to a tense but positive vote this week by the municipal council of Czarny Dunajec in southern Poland, work will proceed on the restoration project for the town’s long disused former synagogue. The joint project to restore both it … continue reading →
