Published at the end of May 2012, the report documents the status condition of Jewish burial grounds surveyed recently by local participants of the Lo-Tishkach Education Projects in Ukraine.
The report on the Perechynskyi, Svaliavskyi, Tiachivskyi, Velykobereznianskyi, and Volovetskyi raions represents the third Lo Tishkach survey in the region, historically part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
During 2010-2011, Lo Tishkach surveyed all the Jewish burial sites in the Kurzeme, Vidzeme and Zemgale regions as well as the capital territory in and around Riga. Only the Latgale region remained to be processed.
Discussions over the state of the hundreds of Jewish burial sites in Ukraine were held with senior leaders of the country’s major churches during a visit of the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations to Brussels on Wednesday, 6 March 2013. The leaders also brought up similar issues during meetings at the European Commission.
With the publication of the report into the mass graves in Latvia’s Latgale region, all results are now in regarding the state of all such sites across the country. This extensive project has been made possible with the support of the Claims Conference and with a strong educational component involving young people from the country’s… Read more »
Lo-Tishkach’s Executive Director, Elimelech Bindinger, addressed a key Jewish heritage conference in Krakow which took place from 23rd until 25th April. Around one hundred representatives from some twenty countries attended the ‘Working Seminar on the Management of Jewish Immovable Heritage’, including Jewish heritage organizations, community bodies, and government representatives. In his address, Mr. Bindinger suggested… Read more »
