Cemetery

Jewish cemetery in Poland damaged by bulldozer during unsupervised repairs, org. tells 'Post'

The tractor entered through the main entrance and broke many tombstones on the way to the work area, scattering human bone fragments, J-nerations told the Post.

A tractor which drove over graves, smashed gravestones, and dug directly into graves in the Brzesko cemetery in Poland.
Artifacts found at ancient cemetery discovered at the Kom El-Khalgan archaeological site in Egypt's Dakahlia Governorate, August 21, 2026.

Layers of history: Egypt unearths 6,000-year cemetery spanning Predynastic to Ptolemaic eras

The Beth Elamen Jewish cemetery at Damascus Road in the Achrafieh quarter of the Lebanese capital Beirut, taken 2021

Israel seeks return of Jewish remains buried in Lebanon as part of prisoner talks - report

Jabalpur, Jewish Cemetery.

Bene Israel community fight to save historic Jabalpur cemetery from land grab, desecration


This Prague New Jewish Cemetery monument is made of looted tombstones

The 750,000 Czech crowns ($31,000) memorial, paid for by a crowd-funding campaign, resembles the sun’s rays emanating from a circle, with the cobblestones stacked in walls of unequal height.

 An artist’s impression of the The Return of the Stones monument in Prague.

Yemenite Children Affair: Second grave to be opened Wednesday

Earlier this year, two graves were found under the headstone of Uziel Khoury, but it wasn't clear if either of the bodies was his.

 The Melamed family stands in front of Yossef's grave before it is opened.

600-year-old Jewish cemetery in Turkey vandalized, graves destroyed

Hasköy is one of the oldest districts where Jews used to live and one of the older still-used Jewish cemeteries is located there.

 36 graves in the Jewish Hasköy Cemetery in Istanbul Turkey were vandalized and destroyed Thursday night, July 14, 2022

Vandals topple 70 gravestones in Winnipeg Jewish cemetery

With a lack of graffiti evidence, it is unclear whether the vandals had antisemitic motives.

 The Mount of Olives is home to the largest Jewish cemetery in Israel

A few words and a Star of David for my uncle in Italy

In the hot, dusty wheatland town of Malmesbury in South Africa where they grew up, Tony was everyone’s ticket to a good time.

 Nathan ‘Tony’ Cohen (right) in Tel Aviv, where he was treated after escaping from captivity in Tobruk.

2 Jewish cemeteries vandalized in Germany

Swastikas were found spray-painted on a wall in Hamburg’s centuries-old Altona Cemetery, German news site t-online reported Tuesday.

 Headstones of Sephardic Jews lie on the ground at the Altona cemetery in Hamburg, Germany.

Moroccan authorities restore ancient Jewish cemetery of Meknes

Authorities in Morocco are in the midst of an overhaul renovation of Jewish heritage sites in parallel with deepening ties with Israel.

 Jews pray at the Jewish cemetery of Meknes, Morocco, May 18, 2022.

Touring the Jewish catacombs of Rome

Roman Jews do not consider the Jewish catacombs in their city as archaeological sites; to them, these are the graves of their ancestors, which they regard with great reverence

 TEMPLE BOOTY: The menorah as seen as part of the Roman Triumphal panel on the Arch of Titus.

Yemenite Children Affair: Grave of child to be opened for first time

A DNA test will be conducted as part of attempts to uncover details on the Yemenite Children Affair.

 JEWISH AGENCY representatives meet Yemenite immigrants arriving at Lod Airport in 1949. (Wikimedia Commons)

Jewish soldiers are buried under crosses around the world. A rabbi’s nonprofit is changing that.

The placement of crosses was often the result of administrative error in war times, or of soldiers obscuring their Jewish identities during a war in which Nazis summarily executed Jews.

ONE OF MORE than 170 Jewish headstones lies toppled following an attack on Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri, in 2017.