An international initiative led by the American Jewish Committee has begun to investigate mass grave sites in Ukraine as a first step in a wide-ranging project to protect these Holocaust-era sites. At a press conference in Berlin, the AJC brought together a wide coalition of international groups who will assist in overseeing this project.
The Lo Tishkach Foundation has recently completed its first report into the state of Jewish cemeteries and Holocaust mass grave sites in Latvia. The report covers 26 sites in the Zemgale region in the southern part of the country straddling Latvia’s border with Lithuania.
The first of a series of nine Lo Tishkach educational seminars among Jewish youth in Ukraine took place this month near the city of Dnipropetrovsk in the east of the country. Over 50 high-school and university students took part in the event held over the weekend of January 7-9 in a hotel camp in Novomoskovsk.
The United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad is funding memorialisation and restoration work at five Holocaust mass grave sites and Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine in collaboration with the Lo Tishkach Foundation. The memorialisation projects will take place at sites in the Kyiv region of Ukraine.
The cemetery contains marked mass graves and a memorial monument to the Holocaust victims. Burials at this Cemetery are indexed. This the only Jewish cemetery which emerged in Latvia after the Second World War. In the 1950’s, the old Jewish Cemetery in Krustpils (founded in the early 19th century) was liquidated, and the tombstones were…
