Jewish Heritage Europe

Valuable pre-WW2 photographs added to Virtual Shtetl

  Virtual Shtetl has added more than 200  archival photographs from the collections of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences to its website. Most of them are of pre-World War II synagogues and their interiors and  have … continue reading →

Historic images of Jewish heritage in Eastern Europe from An-sky expeditions

  We would like to signal an extraordinary four-part series of videos put together by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter based on the collections of the Jewish author, playwright and researcher S. An-sky, who led a series of ethnographic expeditions in 1912-1914 … continue reading →

Interview with Virtual Shtetl’s founder, Albert Stankowski

  In the six years since it was founded, the Virtual Shtetl web site has become an extraordinary digital portal to news, information and data about Jewish heritage, history and sites in more than 2,500 localities in historic Polish lands. … continue reading →

Maceva Litvak cemetery catalogue annual report on 2014 activities

Jewish cemetery in Valbaninka, Lithuania.

    The Maceva Litvak Cemetery Catalogue has published its 2014 annual report, noting its activities over that year in digitizing Jewish cemeteries in Lithuania, photographing individual stones,  and carrying out clean-up and other operations. It also outlines plans for … continue reading →