CEMETERY FOCUS April 2011

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France: Skinheads jailed for vandalising Strasbourg cemeteries; Germany: New technique helps preserve inscriptions, documentary about Berlin Weißensee cemetery; Macedonia: Holocaust centre inaugurated; Netherlands: Local research project, Excess vegetation cleared at cemetery; Russia: Malakhovka cemetery extended; UK: Metal stolen from Blackpool cemetery.

CEMETERY WATCH April 2011

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France: Skinheads jailed for vandalising Strasbourg cemeteries; Germany: New technique helps preserve inscriptions, documentary about Berlin Weißensee cemetery; Macedonia: Holocaust centre inaugurated; Netherlands: Local research project, Excess vegetation cleared at cemetery; Russia: Malakhovka cemetery extended; UK: Metal stolen from Blackpool cemetery.

CEMETERY FOCUS April 2011: Vac, Pest County, Central Hungary

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The cemetery is situated in a suburban hillside location, separate but near other cemeteries. A broken and locked fence surrounds it. The boundaries are the same since 1939. The cemetery is not marked with signage. The current area of the cemetery stands the same as its pre WWII size at 0.54 hectares. This cemetery was established in 1841. The last known burial was in 1967. The Jewish settlements in Alsoqod, Felsogod and Szod (15km away) also used this cemetery. Over 500 gravestones remain, of which in excess of 25% are damaged.