The last few weeks in Europe have seen temperatures soar to heights generally unheard of in this part of the world. Unused to such climes, most of the continent has had to escape the sun while others have had the opportunity to revel during our traditional holiday period. ...Read more »

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… ...Read more »

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. ...Read more »

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. ...Read more »

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. ...Read more »