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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

cemeteries

Screen capture from video showing a damaged cemetery in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip. (CNN/Reuters. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 21, 2024, 9:22 am
IDF said to heavily damage 16 Gaza cemeteries during military operations
CNN report relies on satellite imagery, heavy armored vehicle tracks, and eyewitness accounts including from reporters who were driven through a graveyard in an APC
By ToI Staff
A number marks a Jewish grave, left, at the former Central Islip Psychiatric Center on New York's Long Island. A stone at right was added after the hospital began working with a Jewish burial society. (Patricia Desrochers/Touro Law Center/ via JTA)
December 10, 2021, 3:56 am
Families demand names where numbers mark Jewish graves at former NY psych hospital
In the cemetery of the now-defunct Central Islip Psychiatric Center, markers for the interred lack names. A nearby Jewish law school is helping relatives identify loved ones
By Stewart Ain
Illustrative photo of Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem on April 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 22, 2021, 11:08 pm
Chief rabbi: Missionary’s remains should be moved from Jewish Jerusalem cemetery
David Lau says ‘every effort must be made’ to remove the body of Amanda Elkohen, who was unmasked as a Christian posing as a Haredi Jew, following her death
By Amy Spiro
Jewish Cemetery in Karczew, Poland, 2017 (courtesy: Christian Herrmann/vanishedworld.blog)
March 5, 2021, 11:04 am
‘Annihilation’ of Poland’s Jewish cemeteries documented in provocative book
Krzysztof Bielawski publishes 1st ‘historical synthesis’ of Poland’s destroyed Jewish graveyards, emphasizing role of government-led campaigns and new grassroots efforts to rebuild
By Matt Lebovic
Netanel Crispe works on a headstone at the oldest Jewish cemetery in Vermont. (David LaChance/Bennington Banner/ via JTA)
December 8, 2020, 4:01 pm
High schooler heads up preservation of Vermont’s oldest Jewish cemetery
10th-generation Vermonter Netanel Crispe accidentally found burial site, where gravestones date back to 1874. He’s now using it to unite area’s Jews
By David LaChance
Illustrative: French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, center, followed by Strasbourg Chief Rabbi Harold Abraham Weill, second right, walk amid vandalized tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Westhoffen, west of the city of Strasbourg, eastern France, December 4, 2019. (Jean-Francois Badias/AP)
July 15, 2020, 11:43 pm
‘Death to Jews’ and swastikas drawn on gravestones in southern France
About 20 tombstones, apparently chosen at random, vandalized but not broken or toppled in Gruissan municipal cemetery in Aude region
By Marcy Oster
Screen capture of Santa Rosa Memorial Park. (Google Maps)
June 18, 2020, 10:44 am
Fountain dedicated to Holocaust survivors smashed at California cemetery
Police investigating if incident at Santa Rosa Memorial Park was a hate crime; installation created as a memorial to local couple who lost 12 family members in Shoah
By Marcy Oster
A grave at the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow, Poland. (Emmanuel Dyan/Flickr via JTA)
June 16, 2020, 6:50 am
Jewish cemetery in Poland vandalized with spray-paint
Letters ‘AJ,’ likely meaning ‘anti-Jewish,’ sprayed on wall of historical graveyard in city of Tarnow; site was also defaced last year
By Katarzyna Markusz
One of the graves at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery that bears a swastika. (Michael Field/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
May 16, 2020, 2:06 am
Wasserman Schultz calls for removal of Nazi tombstones in US military cemeteries
Leading Jewish congresswoman urges US Veterans Affairs to replace German WWII prisoners’ gravestones which bear swastikas and tributes to Hitler
By Ron Kampeas
Burial plots at the historic Jewish cemetery in the Bassatine district in Cairo. (Courtesy)
February 12, 2020, 3:48 pm
US contributes to project aimed at conserving historic Jewish cemetery in Cairo
American Research Center in Egypt says work will focus on creating thorough documentation of the graveyard and putting together a site management plan
By Adam Rasgon
Volunteer "memory watcher" Lionel Godmet patrols in the Jewish cemetery in Jungholtz, eastern France, on December 10, 2019. (SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP)
December 18, 2019, 3:49 am
‘Guardians of memory’ keep watch over France’s Jewish cemeteries after attacks
After spate of vandalism shocked the nation, civic-minded non-Jewish volunteers take to patrolling cemeteries, call to ‘Leave the dead in peace!’
By Beatrice ROMAN-AMAT
A police officer walks past graves which have been vandalized with graffiti in the British World War II Commonwealth Graves cemetery in Mierlo, east of Eindhoven, Netherlands, September 13, 2019. (Rob Engelaar/ANP/AFP)
September 15, 2019, 12:30 am
Vandals paint swastikas on British World War II graves in Netherlands
Mierlo military cemetery desecrated for second time in recent weeks as Holland marks 75 anniversary of its liberation from Nazis
By AFP
Workers at the construction site of a massive underground cemetery in Jerusalem, August 18, 2019. (Oded Balilty/AP)
August 29, 2019, 1:45 pm
As cemeteries run out of space, massive modern catacombs to open in Jerusalem
Inspired by ancient Jewish custom of cave burials, tunnels with sepulchers for interring the dead are prepared beneath capital’s near-capacity Har Hamenuhot cemetery
By Ilan Ben Zion and ISAAC SCHARF
The wall of a Muslim cemetery in Haifa that was torched in a suspected arson attack on August 23, 2019. (Israel Police)
August 24, 2019, 6:03 pm
Jerusalem man arrested on suspicion of arson attack on Muslim cemetery in Haifa
Judge extends remand of 34-year-old for six days, orders he be evaluated by a psychiatrist to determine whether he’s mentally competent
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of smashed tombstones in a Jewish cemetery. (AP/Hans Punz)
June 23, 2019, 9:22 am
Jewish cemeteries desecrated in South Africa
Vandals damage four graves in Strand, near Cape Town; community blames vagrants, not anti-Semitism
By Stuart Winer
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