The remit of Lo Tishkach is to work for the physical identification and memorialisation on site of Jewish burial grounds in Europe and for their demarcation and protection. To achieve this, our website and database preserves for the historical record the existence of these sites – the first stage in ensuring their protection. This means that the database and physical surveys undertaken by Lo Tishkach include all Jewish cemeteries and mass grave sites, specifically those from the Holocaust era and the wave of pogroms at the time of the Civil War (1918-21) following the Bolshevik Revolution in the Soviet Union.
Our research and survey work naturally leads us to investigate sites at which Jews were executed during the Holocaust. Clearly, some of these sites are not the burial sites of these murdered Jews and their burial is not known. It is the view of the Lo Tishkach Foundation that such sites should be memorialised to preserve the physical historical record and therefore they are included on the database and in subsequent surveys and published regional and country reports.
