Berlin’s Weissensee Jewish cemetery, covering 42 hectares and with some 115,000 burials one of the largest in Europe, is something of a nature preserve, home to a remarkably vast variety of plant and animal life, a wide-ranging survey shows. The … continue reading →
ShUM is an acronym of the first letters of the medieval Hebrew names of three cities in Germany: Shin (Sh) = Shpira = Speyer; Vav (represented as U) = Warmaisa = Worms; and Mem (M) = Magenza = Mainz. In … continue reading →
The Judengasse Museum, on the site of Frankfurt’s medieval Jewish ghetto, has reopened as part of a wide-ranging expansion and restructuring of the Frankfurt Jewish Museum‘s permanent exhibitions. The Judengasse Museum reopened on March 20 and now houses a … continue reading →
January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, is marked in many countries as the international Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is an occasion for commemorative ceremonies, educational programs, and other initiatives. Monuments and memorials are also dedicated. This year … continue reading →
We have highlighted several times the work of Cologne-based Christian Herrmann, who travels frequently in east-central Europe to photograph Jewish heritage sites — he has produced a book of his photos, has held an exhibition and maintains a … continue reading →
