european jewish cemeteries

Members of the Wagabunda Scouts troop haul a fallen tree out of the the Jewish cemetery of Nowe Miasto, Poland on Nov. 11, 2020. (Julia Bandurska)

This non-Jewish leader is working to clean up Poland’s forgotten Jewish cemeteries

Michał Laszczkowski’s Cultural Heritage Foundation, which originally focused its work on non-Jewish sites, is connecting organizations with Jewish cemeteries to help clean and preserve them.

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 17, 2020 4:22 pm

EU gives $1.1 million toward preserving Jewish burial sites

The funding will help three Jewish groups survey at least 3,000 cemeteries by 2021, those organizations said.

January 10, 2020 9:54 am

The aftermath of vandalism at the Jewish cemetery of Rochester, the United Kingdom in late September 2019. (Dalia Halpern-Matthews)

Headstones smashed at Jewish cemetery near London

Police are investigating the incident in Rochester as a possible hate crime.

October 22, 2019 2:05 pm

Jewish cemetery vandalized in the Czech Republic

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 2, 2019 8:45 am

Researchers find Jewish headstones at the Nazi killing site of Babi Yar

August 11, 2017 8:58 am

In Austria, an annual cleanup of a Jewish cemetery on a Catholic holiday

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 2, 2016 2:57 pm

Woman’s dying wish ends Dutch Jewish cemetery’s century of disuse

September 2, 2016 5:19 am

Report: Traveling zoo set up on Holocaust execution site in Ukraine

August 8, 2016 8:28 am

Cemeteries initiative has protected 70 Eastern European graveyards

June 8, 2016 12:26 pm

Refugees bring anti-Semitism to Europe, warns senior Hungarian minister

April 15, 2016 5:10 pm

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