Actualités 42/-poland-jewish-cemetery
Jewish cemetery in Poland vandalized with spray-paint
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 08:09:00 GMT
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A wall of the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow, a city in southern Poland, was spray-painted with the letters “AJ,” likely meaning “Anti-Jude,” or anti-Jewish.
Polish archaeology students discover history at Jewish cemetery
Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:15:00 GMT
These newcomers are archaeology students from the University of Warsaw, who convinced Poland’s Jewish authorities to let them work on restoring the cemetery’s pre-war infrastructure ...
This non-Jewish leader is working to clean up Poland’s forgotten Jewish cemeteries
Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:22:00 GMT
which have territories that used to be part of Poland or are still home to Poles today. Then, in 2014, Laszczkowski toured the Okopowa Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. The 83-acre site has about 250,000 ...
Archaeology students excavating Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world
Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:47:00 GMT
In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves. This is Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery and one of the ...
Douglas Jewish cemetery evokes pioneer past
Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:00:00 GMT
Sharon Glassberg, director of the Federation’s Coalition for Jewish education and principal at Hebrew High, is planning for teens to be involved in the cemetery’s restoration. When local teens go on ...