Tag: Graves
IDF soldiers stumble upon World War I graveyard in Gaza
Israeli soldiers made an unexpected historical detour while fighting in the Gaza Strip when they ran across a well-kept World War I British military cemetery.
Adding to the surprise was that some of the graves...
Rediscovering the graves of three ‘esteemed’ Moroccan rabbis after 60 years
The tombs of three celebrated 17th- and 18th-century rabbis—Jacob Ben Malca, Hasday Almosnino and Jacob Marrache—have been rediscovered after more than 60 years at a cemetery in Tétouan in northern Morocco.
Renewed knowledge of the...
Mass graves of 8,000 Nazi victims from World War II found in Polish forest
Two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles killed by the Nazis during World War II were recently discovered in a forest in Poland by archeologists and anthropologists from the Institute...
Mass grave of Holocaust victims uncovered in Logoza, Belarus
A mass grave of Holocaust victims has been discovered near the village of Logoza in Belarus, the Daily Mail reported on Friday.
Photos from the excavation site show that officials uncovered bone remains, full skeletons (some with...
Belfast cemetery discovers several graves vandalized in Jewish section
Ten Jewish gravestones were vandalized last week in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and police are said to be treating it as a hate crime. The incident came amid a spate of violence that has rocked...
Rabbis, Jewish world leaders unveil symbolic synagogue, prayer space at Babi Yar
Marking Yom Hashoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day on the Jewish calendar—the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center unveiled the very first Jewish prayer space on Thursday.
The symbolic synagogue structure was opened at a ceremony that included special prayers led...
Dozen-plus medieval Jewish headstones discovered inside wall in Germany
Construction works recently uncovered 18 Jewish gravestones from the Middle Ages that were built into a wall in the old town of Mainz, Germany.
According to Germany’s Ministry of Culture, the gravestones were used in...
US ambassador to Holland visits cemetery that includes graves of Waffen-SS
U.S. Ambassador to Holland Pete Hoekstra visited a Dutch cemetery on Thursday where Nazis are buried.
“Walked among the graves at Ysselsteyn, a cemetery for German soldiers from WWI & WWII. A terrible reminder of...
Ukrainian city plans to build residences atop mass Jewish grave
A mass grave of Jews murdered in the Holocaust has been sold by a Ukrainian city to a residential building developer who is planning to establish real estate projects on the site.
Some 5,000 Jews...