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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 535

European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative ESJF

The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports, a complex that was shut down a decade ago, is the site of a proposed $25 million conference center. (JTA)
June 6, 2023, 7:22 pm
Lithuanian city vows to preserve ancient Jewish cemetery it had sought to dig up
Reversal in Vilnius follows highly publicized 10-year battle; activists issue two reports with cultural preservation strategies to avoid similar problems in the future
By Canaan Lidor
The late-16th century Buchach Jewish cemetery in western Ukraine has some 2,000 gravestones. (Courtesy/ESJF).
January 11, 2020, 5:29 pm
EU gives $1.1 million toward preserving Jewish burial sites
European Commission extends funding to European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, which uses innovative tools to identify vulnerable sites
By JTA
Participants of a conference organized by the Germany-based foundation European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (EJCI) watch a drone take off over a Jewish cemetery near the village of Reca, Slovakia, February 26, 2019. (Petr David Josek/AP)
February 27, 2019, 6:20 pm
Drones launched to help preserve Europe’s Jewish cemeteries
Nonprofit organization plans to map boundaries of 1,500 endangered burial grounds in Slovakia, Greece, Moldova, Lithuania and Ukraine so they can be properly enclosed
By Karel Janicek
The late-16th century Buchach Jewish cemetery in western Ukraine has some 2,000 gravestones. (Courtesy/ESJF).
December 11, 2018, 9:17 am
German government pays to fence Ukrainian Jewish cemetery
Late-16th-century graveyard located in Buchach, western Ukraine; famous progeny include Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon and Austrian Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal
By Toby Axelrod
A ceremony at a Jewish cemetery in Frampol, Poland. (ESJF via JTA)
September 26, 2018, 10:19 pm
Nazi aerial photography is helping map and preserve Jewish cemeteries
With modest funding from the German government, the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative is racing to locate and fence in neglected and vandalized burial grounds
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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