(JHE) — With overwhelming support from local citizens, authorities in the city of Konin are seeking funding to restore the town’s former synagogue and return it to dignified use as a cultural space. The city acquired the nearly 200-year-old building … continue reading →
Yom HaShoah, Israel and the Jewish world’s annual day of remembrance of the Holocaust, is marked this year today, April 8…. It’s become almost a tradition for JHE to mark the day by posting images of Holocaust memorials that name … continue reading →
More than half a dozen projects to document, maintain, and/or restore Jewish cemeteries are among 26 Jewish heritage and culture grants awarded by the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. The Association announced the grants on Thursday. Applications … continue reading →
(JHE) — The fate of the early 19th century synagogue building in the Fordon district of Bydgoszcz, in northern Poland, remains uncertain after it failed to be sold at two auctions in recent months. A third auction is planned, maybe … continue reading →
(JHE) — A prominent new Holocaust memorial in Gorlice, in southern Poland, is a pavilion-like building shaped like a Star of David that conserves numerous matzevot and fragments discovered at the site of a former Hasidic bet midrash in the … continue reading →
