Our report on our fieldwork in Oświęcim is coming soon. As part of our commitment to the documentation of the Jewish cemetery in Oświęcim, we now require some assistance translating the inscriptions on a small amount of matzevot recorded during the fieldwork in August 2016. The inscriptions need to be translated from Hebrew to English … Continue reading Translations required
Survey completed in Rohatyn
A team from the Centre of Archaeology at Staffordshire University completed a ten-day survey in Rohatyn, Ukraine this week aimed at locating Holocaust-era mass graves. The project was commissioned by our project partner Rohatyn Jewish Heritage, a volunteer-led NGO that works to reconnect the history of Rohatyn’s now-lost Jewish community with the people and places of the modern … Continue reading Survey completed in Rohatyn
Site Survey: Mazovia and Lubelski
This week, Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls, Steven Reece and Czelsie Weston undertook the second of our site survey visits in Poland. The team visited eleven Jewish cemeteries in the Mazovia and Lubelski regions in order to document evidence of cultural genocide and select sites for detailed fieldwork in summer 2017. Details of our summer plans will … Continue reading Site Survey: Mazovia and Lubelski
Reconciliation in Focus
Our project partner Steven Reece of The Matzevah Foundation, describes our work in Oświęcim cemetery and the role of cemetery restoration in reconciliation in Jewish Heritage Europe. "Steven D. Reece is a Baptist minister in the United States who works to restore and maintain Jewish cemeteries in Poland. The idea of reconciliation underlies his involvement. … Continue reading Reconciliation in Focus
Review Article: Cemetery Research
Jewish Heritage Europe reviews the archaeological methods that we use for our research. "Ground-penetrating radar and other new, non-invasive technologies are important new tools in research on Jewish (and other) burial places, including cemeteries as well as death camps and other Holocaust sites. These technologies can help pinpoint grave sites and buried tombstones, establish cemetery boundaries, … Continue reading Review Article: Cemetery Research
Survey completed in Oswiecim Jewish cemetery
A major new research and reconciliation project exploring cultural and physical genocide in Jewish cemeteries launched in August 2016 with the mapping and restoration of Oświęcim Jewish cemetery (Poland). The cemetery was desecrated by the Nazis during the Second World War and the matzevah were damaged and removed from the cemetery to be used in construction … Continue reading Survey completed in Oswiecim Jewish cemetery
