Our Senior Surveyor, Ian Galevskii, visited 38 locations where Jewish cemeteries were believed to exist. Fieldwork confirmed Jewish burial sites at 32 of these locations. We are now preparing a list of sites that require urgent fencing and protection.
ESJF’s surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina are part of a broader plan to document Jewish cemeteries across the Balkans and the Baltic region: Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Slovenia.
This work is made possible thanks to funding from the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad.
We are also very grateful for the support of our local coordinator, Ekaterina Karaseva.