We hesitate to call this “A good News Story” To use the the word “good” in such a context would be to insult the memory of all those who perished or suffered in those, the darkest of days.. But we can, at…
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Funchal Jewish Cemetery
Bancroft Road Jewish Cemetery – update
Benjamin and Isabella .. who?
We were recently contacted by a sharp-eyed researcher who suspected we had a duplicate entry for Benjamin Woolf. Normally, such duplications are relatively easy to look into, albeit administratively very much harder to rectify! But not so in the case…
Julia and Edward Laurine
Jewish Cemetery of Etterbeek in Wezembeek
Dieweg Jewish Cemetery Brussels
Cemetery Scribes – What we do, and what we don’t do
We set up The CemeteryScribes project in 2008. Our aim was to photograph and record the information inscribed over the centuries on headstones in Jewish cemeteries across the country before its irrevocable loss to the ravages of acid rain, urbanization,…
Is this the smallest Jewish place of burial in the UK?
Jewbury, Medieval Jewish Cemetery, York
In 1177 Henry II gave a licence for Jewish communitites to have a burial ground in any city in Great Britain. The Jewbury cemetery is about an acre in size and is now beneath a car park. The site was…