The World program on Public Radio International runs a piece on the trip to Belarus and elsewhere in Eastern Europe organized for a small group of students by the Yiddishkayt organization in Los Angeles, via its Helix project. Reports Nina … continue reading →
Earlier this year, the Virtual Shtetl project of the forthcoming Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw organized a research trip to Belarus. Here is a brief video documenting what they did, visiting heritage sites and interviewing local … continue reading →
The Jewish cemetery in the village of Derechin near Zelva in Belarus has been damaged by workers cutting down trees and letting them fall on the stones, reports the Russian online publication “Charter ’97.”
The report says the damage was carried out by an agricultural cooperative “under the guise of ‘improvement'” of the cemetery. (The Belarus Jewish Heritage Research Group had already reported the long-neglected cemetery as “ruined.”)
The exhibition Mazevot in Everyday Use has been on at the National Museum of History in Minsk, Belarus since early February and closes Feb. 23. It showcases photographs by the Polish photographer Łukasz Baksik, documenting the various — inappropriate — … continue reading →
An exhibition of photographs of synagogues in western Belarus has opened at the State Museum of History and Archeology in Grodno and will run until March 18. The photographs on display were taken by Agata Maksimowska, Julia Popławska … continue reading →
