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We are happy to announce that we will be collaborating with the Brama Grodzka (Grodzka Gate) – NN Theatre Centre in Lublin, Poland for our next two-day masterclass, which will be dedicated to the heritage of the Jewish cemeteries in the south-eastern Poland. During the masterclass, we will also launch our Regional Cemetery Association initiative […]

Last week, as a continuation of our legal research within our European Commission grant with Centropa and Foundation for Jewish Heritage, the ESJF met with our partner, Martin Kornfeld, CEO of the Federation of Jewish Communities (Židia na Slovensku) in Slovakia. The discussion centred around the local challenges that Slovakian Jewish communities face regarding legal […]

Over the past two days, it has been a great pleasure to host our second European Commission Masterclass and the first of the series to take place in person for local engaged leaders in Chișinău, Moldova. After an opening statement from Ion Duminica, Director of the Center for Ethnology of the Institute of Cultural Heritage, […]

Yesterday, a rededication ceremony was held at the Markuszów Jewish cemetery, which was fenced and protected earlier this year thanks to the work of the ESJF and its partners, Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland – FODŻ and Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland under funding the Auswärtiges Amt, in memory of […]

This week, over two days the ESJF hosted our first Masterclass under our European Commission project organised with our consortium partners Centropa and Foundation for Jewish Heritage! Through a mixture of lectures, seminars and presentations, local engaged stakeholders learnt from experts in the field about Jewish cemeteries in Georgia. We would like to thank all […]

The ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative is looking forward to hosting its second EU master class tomorrow on the topic of Jewish cemeteries in Moldovan Cultural Heritage, which will take place in Chișinău, Moldova over two days. This event is organised in cooperation with the Center for Ethnology of the Institute of Cultural Heritage, which […]

This week, within the framework of our European Commission grant, the ESJF’s Legal Research Officer met with Professor Krzysztof Bielawski, Jewish heritage specialist at the Historical Information Center of the Friends of POLIN Museum and Andrzej Jankowski, representing the Warsaw Jewish Community. During the meeting with Professor Bielawski, the extensive database on ownership rights of […]

Over the past two days, the ESJF’s consortium partner Centropa hosted a seminar for Georgian teachers in Tbilisi! The seminar is one of 7 seminars within our new EU grant, which is funded by the European Commission. Centropa were excited to meet engaged Georgian teachers, who participated in our previous EU grant online. Thanks to […]

Last month, as part of our new EU project, our consortium partners travelled to Bologna and Ferrara in Italy to take part in the EuroClio – European Association of History Educators conference! During the conference, Foundation for Jewish Heritage and Centropa met with teachers from across Europe to discuss the topic of Jewish cemeteries in […]

The final report from our project, Protecting Jewish Cemeteries: Continuation of the mapping process, stakeholders’ involvement and awareness-raising, is now available. This report was made under funding from the European Commission. Building on our first pilot project, the ESJF and its consortium partners Centropa and Foundation for Jewish Heritage developed a comprehensive survey that mapped, […]