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The Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (Milev) has recently uploaded a fascinating new resource — the photographic archives of Lajos Erdélyi, a Holocaust survivor from Transylvania who as ...
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Hungary-Romania: The photo archive of Lajos Erdélyi, who pioneered documentation of Jewish cemeteries in Romania, is uploaded online by the Hungarian Jewish Museum
The Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives (Milev) has recently uploaded a fascinating new resource — the photographic archives of Lajos Erdélyi, a Holocaust survivor from Transylvania who as a journalist
JHE in italiano: Sommario Settimanale
Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici Polonia: è venuto a mancare Herman Storick (1929-2024), discendente americano di ebrei polacchi, che ha
Poland: Herman Storick z”l 1929-2024. An American descendant of Polish Jews who worked to save the Jewish cemetery in his ancestral village, Jeleniewo
Herman Storick, an American descendant of Polish Jews who worked to save the Jewish cemetery in his ancestral village in northern Poland, has died, aged 94. He lived for many
Romania: Full index of the historic Jewish cemetery in Suceava is now online
The full indexed catalog of the burials in the historic Old Jewish Cemetery in Suceava, in the Bukovina region of northern Romania, is now online, on the Jewish Galicia and
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Long(er) Reads Cemeteries: New Monuments Mark Jewish Cemeteries Across Ukraine — Even in Wartime
There are more than 1,300 Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine, most unprotected, desecrated, built over, or bare plots whose matzevot were uprooted by the Nazis or under the Soviets. Since 2021, the United Jewish Community of Ukraine (UJCU) has run a project to place simple memorials at Jewish cemeteries all over the country. To date, more than 120 have been installed, many even in the two years since Russia’s invasion sparked the ongoing war. The project is coordinated by Vitalii Kamozin, the UJCU’s Chief Operating Officer. In this essay, Kamozin describes the project, with comments also by Milton Koch, who has been independently organizing a cemetery marker in his ancestral village.