Jewish cemeteries

Prague’s Jews build monument out of headstones plundered under communism

Locals, their Nazi occupiers and their communist rulers have desecrated Jewish burial sites for building material during and after the Holocaust.

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2 Jewish cemeteries vandalized in Germany amid reported rise in antisemitic crimes

Culprits smashed 16 headstones near Berlin and painted a swastika on the walls of a centuries-old graveyard in Hamburg.

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau, left, and other rabbis attend a Torah scroll completion ceremony in Jerusalem, Israel on June 15, 2015. (Eli Segal)

Israel’s chief rabbi wants exhumation of Jerusalem woman who allegedly pretended to be Jewish

Failing removal, her remains should be fenced off out of consideration for Jews buried near her and their families, the rabbi’s office said.

The torched grave of a daughter of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Kremenchuk, Ukraine in 2015. (Oholei Tzadikim)

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Ukraine grave of Rabbi Nachman’s daughter destroyed and desecrated with pig parts

The Jewish cemetery of Rascov, Transnistria. (Courtesy of Rabbi Pinchas Zaltsman)

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Renovators find a ritual burial facility last used in 1931 at a neglected Jewish cemetery near Moldova

Toppled and smashed headstone lie scattered at the Jewish Cemetery of Wroclaw, Poland on June 16, 2021. (The Jewish Community of Wroclaw)

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Polish schoolchildren destroyed dozens of Jewish headstones. They said they wanted to build a fortress.

A pit that rainfall exposed at a former Jewish cemetery in Iasi, Romania in October 2020, (Dan Acostioaiei)

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Heavy rain reveals remains from Romanian Jewish cemetery destroyed by fascists

Toppled headstones at the Jewish cemetery of Zabrze, Poland on Sept. 11, 2020. (Dariusz Walerjański)

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Tombstones vandalized at 3 Jewish cemeteries in Poland

The aftermath of vandalism at the Oudtshoorn Jewish cemetery in South Africa (Cape SAJB)

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More than 30 headstones damaged at South African Jewish cemetery

Chairs with fake money notes standing next to the decaying Palace of Concerts and Sports of Vilnius, Lithuania on May 1, 2020. (Courtesy of the display's organizers)

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Chairs with fake money placed atop former Jewish cemetery in Lithuania

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