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.
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.
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.
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.
The Lo Tishkach Foundation’s online Database of European Jewish Burial Grounds now contains data on over 10,000 Jewish cemeteries and mass graves. Established in 2006 as a joint project of the Conference of European Rabbis and the Claims Conference, the database features information on sites in 36 European countries.
