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Hungary: The Friends of Budapest Jewish Cemetery organization reports its “best year ever” cleaning up the vast Kozma street Jewish cemetery

The non-profit Friends of Budapest Jewish Cemetery organization carried out extensive clean-up work at the city’s vast Kozma street Jewish cemetery this past year, cleaning an area of 6.85 hectares (17 acres) encompassing 21,873 graves. It was “our best year … continue reading →

Czech Republic: TAMUS Tachov 2022 annual report highlights Jewish cemetery documentation — and QR codes

(JHE) — In 2022, the  Tachov Archives and Museum Society (TAMUS), a Czech non-profit NGO deeply involved in documenting and preserving Jewish cemeteries and other sites, carried out detailed photo documentation of four Czech Jewish cemeteries and launched a QR … continue reading →

Call for Proposals: Research seminar at Yad Vashem, January 2024, on Early postwar efforts to identify, locate, document and memorialize former sites of Jewish life and death (1944-1955)

We are pleased to share this Call for Proposals for a Research Seminar at Yad Vashem to be held in January 2024; application deadline is June 1.  – – – – Memory Maps: Early postwar efforts to identify, locate, document and memorialize … continue reading →

Call for Applications: Fellowships at the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg

We are pleased to share this Call for Applications: Dr. Gabriele Meyer Fellowships at the Institute for the History of the German Jews (IGdJ) in Hamburg 2024 The physician and psychoanalyst Dr. Gabriele Meyer (29 June 1938–30 March 2018), born and … continue reading →