The cemetery is situated in an isolated urban location, on a hillside. A road / entrance sign in Polish marks the site as a Jewish cemetery. The cemetery entrance is a locked iron door. An iron fence set on a red brick wall and pillars, and a locking gate forms the cemetery boundary.
Germany: New Jewish cemetery planned; Hungary: Jewish cemetery vandalised; International: Coalition to protect mass grave sites; Latvia: Cemetery and memorial vandalised; Poland: Cemetery clean-up, ownership; UK: Lottery money for cemetery restoration; Ukraine: Lviv Jewish sites to be marked.
The cemetery is situated in an isolated urban location, on a hillside. A road / entrance sign in Polish marks the site as a Jewish cemetery. The cemetery entrance is a locked iron door. An iron fence set on a red brick wall and pillars, and a locking gate forms the cemetery boundary.
Germany: New Jewish cemetery planned; Hungary: Jewish cemetery vandalised; International: Coalition to protect mass grave sites; Latvia: Cemetery and memorial vandalised; Poland: Cemetery clean-up, ownership; UK: Lottery money for cemetery restoration; Ukraine: Lviv Jewish sites to be marked.
This month: Jewish Cemeteries of Romania by Ruth Ellen Gruber. Nothing evokes the timeless nature of the Jewish presence on Europe more than the photographic record of physical aspects of Jewish life. Among the thousands of photographs Lo Tishkach has compiled over the last few years are some truly evocative and historically important examples.
