Researchers of the Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Organization have created a partial virtual reconstruction of the destroyed Old Jewish Cemetery in Lviv — creating an online gallery of historical photographs from the cemetery and detailed documentation of more than … continue reading →
Russian artillery fire damaged a large Menorah sculpture that was part of the Drobytsky Yar Holocaust Memorial Park and Museum on the eastern outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials and others reported. The memorial complex, opened in 2002, commemorates some 15,000 … continue reading →
The last days of March will see an important Jewish heritage conference that will be accessible online, the regular “Jewish Topographies” conference organized by the Bet Tfila Research Center for Jewish Architecture in Europe at Braunschweig Technical University. Send an email … continue reading →
The Jewish community of Prague carried out the detailed photographic documentation of nearly 2,000 gravestones in several Jewish cemeteries in 2021, according to a recent report posted on the Jewish community web site. Funded as in past years by the … continue reading →
(JHE) — A new smartphone and tablet app teaches Holocaust history in Venice by using Augmented Reality to tell the stories of the people commemorated by Stolpersteine – Stumbling Stones – memorials and at other memorial sites around the city. … continue reading →
