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In the past weeks, ESJF has surveyed 100 sites across Lithuania as part of the pilot project funded by the European Commission. Lithuania is the last of the 5 countries in which ESJF surveys were conducted this year. The work was supported by our local partners, the Community of Lithuanian Jews (Lietuvos žydų bendruomenė), particularly […]

ESJF has begun the process of surveying in Chernivetska oblast, and have already visited over 60 sites. In many cases, our work focuses on areas where historical records suggest the likelihood of a long-term Jewish presence, but where accurate documentation is missing, in order to determine whether a Jewish cemetery was ever present. In that […]

The 2019-2020 EU grant given to ESJF entails not only a mass survey of 1,500 Jewish cemeteries across 5 countries, but also educational initiatives and efforts to build cooperation with local authorities in spreading the word about our shared heritage. Between the 5th and the 7th of June, policy officer Maciej Hofman from the European […]

The ESJF team has begun ground surveys in Mykolaiv oblast, in southern Ukraine. We are planning to visit 45 cemeteries in the region altogether. A comprehensive list of the Jewish cemeteries in Mykolaiv has never before been compiled. As such, Kateryna Malakhova, the ESJF’s in-house historian, has been conducting archival research, and has been able […]

The video clip (in Russian with Romanian subtitles) ESJF’s work surveying 150 Jewish cemetery sites in the Republic of Moldova has been covered in a short documentary by journalist Eugenia Creţu for Radio Free Europe Moldova. The news item, titled “Salvarea de uitare” (“Saving from oblivion”), is part of the series “Pur și simplu” (“Simply”) […]

The ESJF is delighted to announce the signing of a cooperation agreement with the Lithuanian Jewish community (Lietuvos žydų bendruomenė). ESJF Chief Executive Philip Carmel signed the agreement with Faina Kukliansky, President of the Lithuanian Jewish community, during the Kyiv Jewish Forum on May 6th. The agreement will allow for the surveying of around 100 […]

ESJF is proud to announce that field surveys have wrapped up in the first of the project countries in our 2019 EU co-funded mass survey project: “Protecting the Jewish cemeteries of Europe: a full mapping process with research and monitoring and individual costed proposals for protection”. Our team travelled around Greece between March 26th and […]

ESJF surveys in Moldova are progressing well and are on schedule for completion by mid-April. The surveys began on March 25th 2019 with the help of our national coordinators, Irina Shikhova and Julia Seinman, and support from the National Agency for Inspection and Restoration of Monuments as well as the Jewish Community of the Republic […]