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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 563

Jewish cemeteries

The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance block at the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens, New York, has graves going back to the early 1900s. Visitors to the cemetery can take a self-guided audio tour to learn more about the history there. (Cathryn J. Prince)
April 12, 2025, 1:23 am
Sages, celebrities, veterans, crooks: Take a NY cemetery’s Jewish walks of fame – and infamy
Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens was founded in 1903 and holds over 231,000 graves. Its Legacy Foundation offers audio tours teaching visitors about the contributions of those interred
By Cathryn J. Prince
Polish archaeology students at work excavating a Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, September 2024. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)
March 1, 2025, 4:09 pm
Archaeology students excavating a Warsaw Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world
200,000 Jews are interred at the Okopowa Street burial ground, but decades of neglect and the Nazi destruction of archives left many unable to access their roots – until now
By Shira Li Bartov
This photograph, taken on September 20, 2024 shows a Star of David on a Jewish tombstone at the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb, Croatia. (Damir Sencar / AFP)
October 12, 2024, 6:48 pm
Croatia moves to protect 52 Jewish cemeteries after decades of neglect, destruction
Law stipulated that graves could be reassigned if fee not paid, meaning remains of over 3,000 Jews were exhumed because families decimated by Holocaust had nobody left to pay
By Lajla Veselica
Illustrative: Vandalized headstones at the ancient Jewish cemetery of Námestovo, Slovakia, in December 2019. (Courtesy of ZCN via JTA)
November 24, 2023, 4:25 am
Authorities launch probe after at least 85 Jewish graves damaged in Belgian cemetery
Gravedigger in city of Charleroi discovers damage to Jewish section of cemetery; mayor: ‘Place chosen, theft of many Stars of David leave little doubt of antisemitic intentions’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Members of The Together Plan catalog gravestones from the Jewish cemetery in Brest, Belarus. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
October 3, 2023, 3:32 am
A new memorial rises up from the rubble of a Belarus cemetery destroyed by the Nazis
Once a vibrant center of Torah study, Brest saw its 20,000 Jews eradicated in the Holocaust. Now, its shattered gravestones get a new purpose after gathering dust for decades
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Children enjoy a bubble party in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, for Children's Day, June 1, 2023. (Screenshot from YouTube/Kan via JTA)
June 7, 2023, 12:25 am
Polish city throws bubble party on playground over Jewish graves
Chief rabbi of Poland sends letter of complaint to mayor Kazimierz Dolny, says city has refused to engage on protecting remains still buried beneath razed cemetery
By Dinah Spritzer
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
In past years, as many as 300 people at a time have visited the Istanbul cemetery. (David I. Klein/JTA)
January 29, 2023, 12:13 pm
Orthodox pilgrimage to Kabbalist rabbi’s Istanbul grave picks up after COVID slump
Though nowhere near as packed – or rowdy – as a similar one in Ukraine, an off-the-beaten-path tomb is increasingly visited by supplicants who bring an air of quiet camaraderie
By David I. Klein
Members of the Jewish community of Prague, the Czech Republic, attend the unveiling of a monument made of Jewish headstones at a local Jewish cemetery, September 7, 2022. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Prague via JTA)
September 14, 2022, 8:37 am
Prague cobblestones made from Jewish headstones returned to community
‘Return of the Stones’ monument part of larger effort to address desecration of Jewish cemeteries throughout Eastern Europe after the Holocaust
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A damaged Jewish grave is seen at the Jewish cemetery in the city of Aden in southern Yemen. (Twitter/Kan News)
August 22, 2022, 9:22 pm
Yemen restores Jewish cemetery, remainder of a once booming, now long-gone community
Restoration of the 160-year-old burial ground that had been neglected for years began with civil organizations, before being picked up by government
By ToI Staff
The 600-year old cemetery is located in Istanbul’s Hasköy neighborhood. (Türk Yahudi Toplumu via JTA)
July 21, 2022, 9:43 pm
Dozens of Jewish graves vandalized at 600-year-old Turkish cemetery
Erdogan spokesman calls incident a ‘heinous act’; opposition lawmakers also issue condemnations, as interior minister announces 2 suspects have been apprehended
By David I. Klein
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
Dr. Jonathan Weinkle of Pittsburgh's New Community Chevra Kadisha pours water as part of an October 3 ritual completion of tahara ruchanit, or spiritual cleansing. (Adam Reinherz/ Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA)
October 16, 2021, 3:59 am
After tweaking rituals during pandemic, a US Jewish burial society makes amends
A chevra kadisha in Pittsburgh returns to the graves of over 100 people who died in 2020-21 to pray and ‘apologize’ for being unable to perform preparation for burial in entirety
By Adam Reinherz
David Gerbi speaks about Libya in Johannesburg, South Africa, on March 15, 2011. (The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images/via JTA)
October 14, 2021, 10:59 pm
Libya’s Jewish graveyards were destroyed. They are being rebuilt online
David Gerbi left with the rest of his native country’s Jews many years ago. Horrified to see the community cemeteries desecrated on a return visit, he’s created a virtual memorial
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The Jewish cemetery of La Tablada in Buenos Aires, Argentina, pictured in 2013. (Wikimedia Commons/Dario Alpern)
September 9, 2021, 10:06 pm
More than 100 headstones smashed at Jewish cemetery in Argentina
Graves vandalized in section containing remains of dozens of victims from 1994 terrorist bombing at AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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