As part of our major expansion into cemetery surveys in Ukraine, Lo Tishkach will launch surveys across three new Ukrainian regions (or ‘oblasts’) in 2012, thus covering almost three quarters of the country’s Jewish burial sites. During the spring and summer months, all Jewish cemetery and mass grave sites located in the Poltava Oblast…
Less than 20 gravestones remain at the site. They are made of marble, granite, limestone and sandstone. The oldest gravestone dates back to 1856. The last known Jewish burial at the site took place in 1936.
Poland: Restoration works at Several Cemeteries; Latvia: 70th Anniversary of Holocaust Atrocity in Rumbula commemorated; Germany: Desecrations at cemeteries in Weimar Roth and Kaßberg, Chemnitz, Freeze on building at Jewish Cemetery in Wallertheim, New Publication on Jewish Gravestones from the Middle Ages; Spain: Reburial of Remains of Ancient Cemetery in Lucena; Desecrations in Kosovo and Serbia.
This Jewish cemetery, located off the road between a church and a former kindergarden, is surrounded by a concrete wall. Fifty-one gravestones can be found at the site, most of them from the 19th century.
Germany: Memorial Stone Unveiled at Harzgerode Jewish Cemetery, Desecration at Oldenburg Jewish Cemetery; Netherlands: Clean-up Works at Amsterdam Zeeburg Jewish Cemetery, Improvement Works at Tilburg Jewish Cemetery; UK: New Jewish Cemetery in North Essex, Restoration of Liverpool Jewish Cemetery; Ukraine: Holocaust Mass Grave Found.
