On his blog, Christian Herrmann reflects on a recent trip visiting Jewish sites in Bukovina and Galicia in western Ukraine. He describes “a very intense and emotional journey to the heritage of a vanished Jewish world. We visited 27 towns … continue reading →
Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, the German volunteer organization that, among other things, sends volunteers to clean up and maintain Jewish cemeteries, has announced its annual “summer camp” for people 40 and over to help clean up the sprawling Jewish cemetery in … continue reading →
New tri-lingual signage has been put up to mark the historic Old Jewish Cemetery and the synagogue, as well as other historic sites, in Siret, Romania, a small town in the Bucovina region on the border between Romania and Ukraine. … continue reading →
We’ve come across what looks like an interesting kickstarter project called ReVILNA, a project about the WW2 Vilna Ghetto described on its web site as a “digital mapping project dedicated to understanding how the residents of the Ghetto lived, how the … continue reading →
JTA reports that Boris Slobodnyuk, a Ukrainian Christian who is working to save the dilapidated, 16th-century fortress synagogue in Sataniv,was honored at an interaith forum in Kiev. It said Slobodnyuk received the forum’s 2013 Crystal Noah Tolerance Award on Tuesday at … continue reading →
