Killing Sites

The rural Holocaust. Collecting and safeguarding the never recorded testimonies 100 forgotten Jewish graves

Seeking to combat the distortion of the Holocaust as a genocide which exclusively took place in ghettos and extermination camps, the “Forgotten” Foundation and its partners will locate previously...

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Shoah Atrocities Mapping -- Ukraine

This project will create an interactive online map of Holocaust killing sites in Ukraine, which will include sites identified through archival and on-site research. Highly relevant to the IHRA Grant...

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Digital Platform Recording Cultural Genocide and Killing Sites in Jewish Cemeteries

During the Holocaust, Jewish cemeteries across Europe were desecrated by the Nazis and their collaborators in an attempt to erase Jewish culture. Some of these spaces, central to Jewish religious life...

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Holocaust Commemoration in Latvia: Mapping Sites and Sharing Experience

During this project, the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia intended to expand and improve their database of information on Jewish killing sites in Latvia where there were no...

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Avar le Atid - Past for the Future

The mission of this project was to study about forgotten war graves and killing sites and to foster local communities in remembering the past. In the course of two years, a research and project team...

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Recording Cultural Genocide and Killing Sites in Jewish Cemeteries

This project aimed to raise awareness of the causes and consequences of cultural and physical genocide within Jewish cemeteries in order to tackle racism, xenophobia and hostility in the present day...

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Killing Sites - First Stage of Holocaust in Serbia and Croatia

The First Stage of the Holocaust in Serbia and Croatia project was aimed at mapping the locations in which mass shootings of Jews in Serbia and Croatia took place during the early stage of the...

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Conference: As Mass Murder Began


 
 On 22 and 23 March 2017, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance is holding a conference entitled “As Mass Murder Began: Identifying and Remembering the Killing Sites of Summer-Fall 1941”...

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Conference Report


 
 The report of IHRA’s conference on “Killing Sites – Research and Remembrance” under the Multi-Year Work Plan was presented at the IHRA Plenary in London.
 
 IHRA’s Steering Committee for the...

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Mass Graves and Killing Sites in the Eastern Part of Europe

For several years now the topic of the killing sites and mass graves in Eastern Europe, especially those resulting from the Holocaust, has been brought to the attention of public opinion, media and...

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