Thanks to research conducted by Lo Tishkach working with the Warsaw Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH) under the guidance of leading Polish-Jewish heritage expert Jan Jagielski, information on another 500 sites – including some 200 Holocaust mass graves – has been added to the Lo Tishkach online database. ...Read more »

The Lo Tishkach Foundation has completed a report on legislation and practice relating to the protection and preservation of Jewish burial grounds in Estonia. The survey, based on preliminary research, finds that most of the country’s eleven Jewish cemeteries and approximately twenty Holocaust killing and mass grave sites receive basic maintenance. ...Read more »

Located to both sides of Biķernieku iela, a total of 55 known mass graves constitute the biggest Holocaust mass killing and burial site in Latvia. In addition to the memorial posts present in both mass grave areas, a memorial consisting of a black granite cube and thousands of granite stones is located at the site south of Biķernieku iela. ...Read more »

Germany: Two men charged with cemetery desecration; gravestones at risk of collapse; new cemetery planned – Hungary: Cemetery desecrated – Lithuania: Cemetery dispute settled – Netherlands: Volunteers clean cemetery – Poland: Gdansk cemetery vandalised – Spain: Medieval Jewish cemetery re-opened. ...Read more »

Austria: Memorial Inaugurated in Innsbruck – Germany: New Cemetery Needed in Lübeck, Rüthen Cemetery to be Documented, Cemetery Vandalised – Poland: Prisoners Help Restore Cemeteries, New Jewish Heritage Website, Gravestones Returned in Lowicz – Spain: Medieval Cemetery Vandalised. ...Read more »