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We invite professionals from Ukrainian museums and the cultural heritage sector to take part in the seminar on the preservation of Jewish cemeteries and museum collections. The event is organized by ESJF in cooperation with the Ukrainian Museum Association, Ukrainian State Institute of Cultural Heritage MKIP of Ukraine, Museum of Kyiv, the United Jewish Community […]

The ESJF is holding a national roundtable discussion on the preservation and protection of Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine. The event will be approximately two hours long and will take place on January 20 at 20:00, in the Diye-Slovo studio on Zoom. Doctor of Philosophical Sciences Kateryna Malakhova will open the round table with a lecture […]

On September 23-24, the ESJF is hosting a two-day educational seminar in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine! We invite historians, activists, teachers, NGOs, and anyone interested in preserving historical heritage, especially Jewish cemeteries, to participate. The program includes educational sessions on the importance of preserving Jewish cultural heritage in Ukraine as well as workshops on epigraphy, including the […]

We are excited to announce our new online programme for architecture and engineering students on drone technology use in the preservation of Jewish cemeteries! The course aims to equip students with knowledge on the application of UAVs and photogrammetric modelling and is available until the end of February. It will encompass around 2.5 hours of […]

Drones, unfortunately, have been rather a common site in Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine in recent weeks and months, targeting civilians and infrastructural installations as part of the Russian war effort against Ukraine. Now, Kyiv hosts a conference on drones for their positive usage as the ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative conducts an EU […]

Ukraine has been and remains a home for many ethnic and religious groups, each of which has left its influence on the culture of the country. But today these communities are decreasing in number and have in some places dissapeared entirely— their heritage sites going unnoticed, lost or forgotten, despite being important parts of Ukraine’s […]

The European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (ESJF) continues its educational outreach in Ukraine. On February 20, Students gathered at Lviv Polytechnic University to learn about the ESJF’s cultural heritage preservation work from both a historian’s and a technologist’s perspective. ESJF’s Olena Andronatiy introduced students to the project, providing an overview of ESJF’s mission, methods, and results […]

In the framework of the pilot project Mapping the Jewish Cemeteries of Europe, co-funded by the European Commission, we already held teacher training seminars in Greece and Slovakia in 2019. These seminars help us to bring Jewish heritage to classrooms beyond the framework of the project itself, enhancing educators’ practices, and providing a platform for […]

The completion of the educational project in Vyshnivets, Kyiv oblast on November 14th marks the end of the ESJF’s secondary school outreach programme in Ukraine, under the pilot project co-funded by the European Commission. Students from four schools in Vyshnivets and the surrounding towns of Stary Vyshnivets, Butyn, and Bodaki were invited in small groups […]

ESJF’s educational activities have begun in Ukraine, under the pilot project sponsoring the mass surveys from 2018-2020. On November 6th, educator and Jewish cemetery expert Dr. Alexandra Fishel led 50 secondary school students on an excursion to the Jewish cemetery in Bohuslav, Kyiv oblast. ESJF’s educational projects work in close cooperation with schools and educators […]