Biskupice Jewish Cemetery (Photo credit: Caroline Sturdy Colls)
The project website and Facebook group for the “Recording Cultural Genocide and Killing Sites in Jewish Cemeteries Project” has been launched.
The Centre of Archaeology is collaborating with the Matzevah Foundation, Fundacja Zapomniane and a number of partners across Europe on the project, which is funded by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The project focuses on the causes and consequences of cultural genocide, using the treatment of Jewish cemeteries in Nazi-occupied Poland as a case study.
The new website outlines the focus, methodology and geographic scope of the project. Results of recent work also appear on the site.