International Survey of Jewish Monuments (founded 1977)
Three research organizations join efforts to create a comprehensive inventory and history of Holocaust memorial monuments worldwide. The digital database, “Holocaust Memorial Monuments” (cja.huji.ac.il/hmm/browser.php?mode=main) has been launched as a partnership … Read More
ISJM has been following the situation in Hartford this year, where the congregation of the venerable Temple Israel, located in West Hartford since the 1930s, has been pushing plans to … Read More
Jewish Heritage Europe reports on that dramatic new Holocaust / Cemetery memorial in Gorlice, Poland: (JHE) — A prominent new Holocaust memorial in Gorlice, in southern Poland, is a pavilion-like … Read More
From Jewish Heritage Europe: Estonia Update: €400,000 allocated for development of Tallinn’s Old Jewish Cemetery as memorial site and park (JHE) — City authorities in Tallinn are allocating €400,000 for … Read More
Jerry Klinger hoped to see a monument to the American soldiers who liberated the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany. For years he’d looked to the 75th anniversary of the freeing … Read More