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Romania: Full index of the historic Jewish cemetery in Suceava is now online

Old Jewish cemetery Suceava, 1991. Gravestone of Zvi Hirsch Barber, 1852

The full indexed catalog of the burials in the historic Old Jewish Cemetery in Suceava, in the Bukovina region of northern Romania, is now online, on the Jewish Galicia and Bukovina (JGB) web site. The cemetery is one of the … continue reading →

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024: Naming names and highlighting the growing Holocaust Memorial Monuments Database

(JHE) — January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, is marked in many countries as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is an occasion for commemorative ceremonies, educational programs, and other initiatives. Monuments and memorials are also … continue reading →

Slovenia: Revisiting the two lonely Jewish graves at the World War I Austro-Hungarian military cemetery at Štanjel

The World War I Austro-Hungarian military cemetery in Štanjel, Slovenia is a haunting sight, noted — in our context — for its two Jewish gravestones in what is today a vast empty field. JHE’s Ruth Ellen Gruber first visited in 1996, … continue reading →

Czech Republic: New web site and online exhibits of the Prague Jewish Museum’s “Secrets in the Attic” Geniza project

Geniza categories in the Secrets of the Attic project

The Jewish Museum in Prague has launched an informative web site with online exhibits about the eclectic material discovered in genizas in a dozen synagogue buildings that have been researched in the country since the 1990s. The web site, in … continue reading →

Poland: Ryszard Bielawski, prolific Jewish heritage YouTuber, dies at 92

Ryszard Bielawski, a Polish zoologist who had a passion for creating YouTube videos of Jewish cemeteries and other Jewish heritage sites, has died at the age of 92. Bielawski, who has been described as  “probably the first and oldest YouTuber … continue reading →