Jewish Heritage Europe

Thoughts on a trip through western Ukraine, by Christian Herrmann

On his blog, Christian Herrmann reflects on a recent trip visiting Jewish sites in Bukovina and Galicia in western Ukraine. He describes “a very intense and emotional journey to the heritage of a vanished Jewish world. We  visited 27 towns … continue reading →

Article Profiles U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad

  Lesley Weiss was recently named Chair of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad –and  her first public participation in a major Jewish heritage preservation event was at last month’s conference in Krakow on Managing Jewish … continue reading →

Digital Mapping of Vilna Ghetto project

We’ve come across what looks like an interesting kickstarter project called ReVILNA, a project about the WW2 Vilna Ghetto described on its web site as a “digital mapping project dedicated to understanding how the residents of the Ghetto lived, how the … continue reading →

Architect Peter Behrens’s original documentation for Žilina, Slovakia synagogue discovered

Exciting news from the NGO team currently restoring the important modernist synagogue in Žilina, Slovakia that was designed by the German architect Peter Behrens — original copies of Behrens’s project for the building, thought to be definitively lost, have been found … continue reading →

Italian participants’ report on Krakow Jewish Heritage Conference

Renzo Funaro and Annie Sacerdoti of Italy’s Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage, who both gave presentations at last week’s working seminar in Krakow on managing Jewish immovable heritage, have written up the conference in a report posted on the Union … continue reading →