Lo Tishkach, the massive Jewish cemetery survey and database project, has announced expanded research and documentation of Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Jewish VAAD umbrella group. Beginning in early June, the VAAD will start surveying the … continue reading →
The complete results of the documentation of the Weissensee Jewish cemetery in Berlin have been published as 115.628 Berliners. The Weißensee Jewish Cemetery – Documentation of the Comprehensive Survey of the Burial Sites (Berlin, 2013). The entire text is provided in … continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
