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Our handouts were used by a great friend of the ESJF, Tetiana Fedoriv, during a workshop for around 30 participants at the Ostroh Jewish cemetery, organized as part of the city’s Days of Jewish Culture (Town Image Studio) This cemetery was fenced by the ESJF back in 2015, with financial support from the German Federal […]

The Kasperivtsi Jewish cemetery is now protected by a metal fence, becoming the third cemetery in the Ternopil region that ESJF has fenced this year with the financial support of the German Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt). Previously, this cemetery had no fence or protection at all — it was only surrounded by a small […]

An online workshop on reading Jewish epitaphs, focusing on tombstones from the Jewish cemetery in Rivne, took place, with around 20 participants joining us. During the session, Alexandra Fishel, ESJF Educational Projects Officer, taught participants how to identify key information on Jewish tombstones, interpret symbols, and calculate dates of death using the Hebrew calendar. From […]

The ESJF installed a protective fence around the Zavaliv Jewish cemetery in Ukraine’s Ternopil region. This project was made possible with the support of the German Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt). During World War II, this Jewish cemetery was largely destroyed, and in the post-war period, the remaining tombstones disappeared from its grounds. During ESJF […]

The program was developed by TOLI – The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights (Oana Bajka) in partnership with the Holocaust Documentation Center in Bratislava (Dokumentačné stredisko holokaustu, Jan Hlavinka) and the ESJF. The seminar was opened by special guests: Dr. Thomas Kurz, Ambassador of Germany to Slovakia (Nemecké veľvyslanectvo Bratislava); Elizabeth […]

As part of our regular maintenance work, the Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine’s Transcarpathia, in the villages of Dubove and Mala Dobron, were cleaned recently. These cemeteries were fenced by the ESJF back in 2016 and 2017 with the financial support of the Auswärtiges Amt (German Federal Foreign Office). Today, we are seeing more and more […]

Work in Serbia is moving forward at full speed. We’ve just completed the installation of a fence around the Jewish cemetery in Pivnice! Around 25 tombstones have survived at this site, dating from the 1850s to the early 20th century. Like many Jewish communities at the time, Pivnice’s was wiped out in the Shoah. The […]

In total, we received about 80 applications from over 30 towns across the country — a clear sign of the strong and growing interest in protecting Jewish cemeteries. At the opening, the guests were addressed by Christiana Markert, Deputy Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany (German Embassy Budapest); Prof. Dr. Andor Grósz, President of […]

Jews once made up 10% of the population of this small Hungarian town, but only two survived in the Shoah. Today, all that remains of the community are 33 gravestones — 26 intact and 7 broken or surviving only as pedestal bases — dating from 1864 to 1927. The town’s synagogue no longer stands, leaving […]

This burial site was protected by the ESJF with the financial support of the Auswärtiges Amt (German Federal Foreign Office) and in cooperation with the Jewish Community of Moldova and the Municipality of Ceadîr-Lunga. The official rededication ceremony was attended by Magdalena Poirier, Head of the Culture and Media Department of the Embassy of the […]

The ESJF has installed a new metal fence around the Budisava Jewish cemetery in the Vojvodina region. This burial site lies right next to a cornfield, and without clear boundaries, it was at real risk of being plowed and converted into farmland. Other Jewish cemeteries fenced in Serbia this year include those in Zmajevo, Đurđevo, […]

Of all ESJF’s projects to date, this turned out to be the most technically complex, largely due to the hilly terrain and the river that borders the site. The original wall, constructed in 1997, began to fall apart soon after it was built. Now, the centuries-old cemetery, dating back to the 1580s, is surrounded by […]