Following on from surveys of Jewish burial sites in a number of Ukrainian regions and across the Baltic States, Lo Tishkach is to expand its survey work into Poland during 2012. In-depth surveys of Jewish burial sites across the Silesian voivodeship in southern Poland will begin in the Spring.
Lo Tishkach is to continue its surveys into Jewish cemeteries in Transcarpathia in eastern Ukraine. Following on from previous survey projects which covered more than 100 sites in seven districts (or ‘raions’) of the region located in the far south-east of Ukraine, the 2012 and 2013 surveys will include a total of 79 sites across three different raions.
A new initiative bringing together the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, Lo Tishkach and the VAAD of Ukraine will link up work between the three groups and share vital information on Jewish heritage in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Data and thousands of photographs from surveys undertaken by Lo Tishkach in Ukraine over the past three years will be uploaded to a new Russian-language database.
Lo Tishkach has published its latest report into the state of the Jewish cemeteries and Holocaust-era mass graves in the western Latvian region of Kurzeme. This marks the third out of four regions surveyed by Lo Tishkach in collaboration with the Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia. Survey data from the fourth region of Latgale is currently being collated with a report on this region due out in the spring.
A landmark draft resolution by the Council of Europe Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media has called for European governments and pan-national inbstitutions to take urgent action to protect Jewish cemeteries and burial grounds. The Council of Europe began to study information for this report in early 2010 and requested that Lo Tishkach provide full data lists of all the cemeteries and mass grave sites in Europe from our exhaustive lists.
