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Located in the middle of a field, the cemetery used to be easily accessed by pigs from nearby households, which damaged graves and disturbed the remains. The new fence now keeps them out, as shown in the photos. The fencing of the Paușa Jewish cemetery was made possible thanks to the financial support of the […]

Thus, a fencing project is now underway at the Jewish cemetery in Opályi, Hungary. The site was in urgent need of protection, since a section of the cemetery had already been overtaken by construction in the past. There are 78 remaining tombstones at the site, 52 intact and 26 broken, dating back to the period […]

This Jewish burial site likely dates back to the 1880s. Today, several dozen gravestones remain, most of them from the 1910s and 1920s. We would like to thank our local coordinator in Romania and the President of the Jewish Community of Sălaj, Dan Has, for his dedicated work in helping to protect this cemetery. The […]

The density of Jewish cemeteries in Slovakia is among the highest in Europe. Moreover, the region at the junction of Slovakia, Hungary, and Ukraine is distinguished by an exceptionally high and unique concentration of cemeteries: the Košice region of Slovakia (more than 288), the Hungarian region of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg (414), and Ukraine’s Transcarpathia (183). The results […]

Picture: Nowe Brzesko, a field on the site of the Jewish cemetery This is the highest percentage of destroyed Jewish cemeteries recorded by ESJF during the surveys in 11 countries of Central and Eastern Europe. By comparison, the figures are 51% in Greece, 35% in Ukraine, and 11% in Slovakia. Among the factors influencing the […]

Photo: Radovan Sremac Between September and December 2025, ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative held the International Jewish Cemetery Research Competition, focused on Jewish cemeteries fenced between 2023 and 2025, with financial support from the German Federal Foreign Office. As part of the competition, participants were asked to photograph all accessible tombstones in the Jewish cemetery […]

The Derazhnia Jewish cemetery in Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi region was fenced in 2023. Tetiana Shevchuk, a methodologist at the House of Children and Youth Creativity of the Derazhnia City Council, worked on a project about the cemetery together with members of the Young Erudite Club: Sofiia Tokar, Yelyzaveta Kapeliushna, and Vladyslava Fochuk. For the competition, the […]

ESJF fenced the Šid Jewish cemetery in 2025. As part of a competition, teacher Gordana Pavlović from “Sava Šumanović” Gymnasium, together with students Jovana Trifunović and Tara Obućina, conducted research on this site. They named their project “The Silence That Speaks.” Through preparation, field research, and workshop activities, students learned to read the memorial space […]

The Jewish cemetery in Bobota, Sălaj County, dates back to the late 19th or early 20th century. Around a dozen tombstones have survived there, mostly from the 1910s–1920s. This cemetery is now surrounded by a new metal fence. We would like to thank our local coordinator in Romania and the President of the Jewish Community […]

Jews were among the founders of Bălți, settling there as early as 1779. Over time, the city became an important center of secular Yiddish culture. In 1930, Bălți was home to 14,259 Jews, who made up around 60% of the city’s population. Two Jewish cemeteries are known to have existed in Bălți. The old Jewish […]

The site is located in an area that was one of the earliest centers of Hasidism and holds exceptional historical significance. This fence marks ESJF’s 10th and final project in Ukraine for 2025. According to Hasidic tradition, after his marriage in Brody, Israel Baal Shem Tov lived “between Kuty and Kosiv.” During the same period […]

We are happy to announce that with the completion of the fencing project at the Jewish cemetery in Sobrance, all six planned projects in Slovakia for 2025 are now finished. Jewish cemeteries located near roads are vulnerable to damage from traffic accidents or road expansions. The Sobrance Jewish cemetery is also situated next to a […]