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The JHE Newsletter is out – a double summer issue

  The new Jewish Heritage Europe Newsletter is now online — a double summer issue for June and July. There’s news, info, and insights from Poland, Czech Republic, Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, France, Russia, the UK (Scotland) — and more. Click … continue reading →

Poland: Get involved with scientific survey of mass grave sites

  There are still a couple days to sign up to take part in the next stage of the  “Holocaust Killing Sites” project that uses ground-penetrating radar and other non-invasive technologies to map Holocaust mass grave sites. The project,  Recording … continue reading →

Lithuania: 2nd season of archaeology at site of Vilnius Great Synagogue and Shulhoyf gets under way

The second season of archaeological excavations is under way at the site of the destroyed Great Synagogue in Vilnius and the surrounding Shulhoyf complex of Jewish buildings. A team of Israeli, Lithuanian and American volunteers began work on July 10 … continue reading →

Ukraine: volunteer clean-up — for a Synagogue (as well as Cemetery)

  Summer is the season for volunteer clear up initiatives — and many are going on, in several countries. Almost all deal specifically with Jewish cemeteries, but in Ukraine, one will focus on a former synagogue building as well as … continue reading →

Poland: archaeologists probe foundations of destroyed New Synagogue in Wrocław

  In a plot of land between a kindergarten and a car park, archaeologists in Wrocław, in southwestern Poland, have revealed parts of the foundations of the monumental New Synagogue that was destroyed on Kristallnacht in 1938. “The overgrown plot … continue reading →