The ancient Jewish cemetery in Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia, will soon disappear, under the new city planning regulations adopted by the municipal government, states a despatch from Prague to the ...

Red tape is holding up plans for a memorial to mark one of Europe’s oldest Jewish burial sites. The 750-year-old site on Prague’s Vladislavova Street attracted international attention several years ...

Pieces of Jewish gravestones unearthed during excavation work in Prague will be returned to the Czech capital's Old Jewish Cemetery. The agreement was reached between the city and its Jewish community ...

Tombstones broken into pieces PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police say unknown vandals knocked over 26 tombstones in a Jewish cemetery south of Prague. Police spokesman Miroslav Doubek says the tombstones were ...

JTA — During and after the decimation of Eastern Europe’s Jewish populations in the Holocaust, even the dead were not spared: locals, their Nazi occupiers and their communist rulers looted Jewish ...

Prague, April 21 (CTK) – Three family vaults and 480 tombstones have been repaired at the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague thanks to a project, which received 4.7 million crowns from the Norway Grants ...

One of Prague's most emblematic places, the Old Jewish Cemetery made up of 12,000 tombstones all crammed into a tight space behind two synagogues, is being digitised in an effort to list all the ...