Protecting Our Heritage Abroad
At the request of our Holocaust Survivor community, UJO is active in the preservation of our heritage abroad with particular focus on Jewish Cemeteries that are in danger of being desecrated and destroyed due to development and in certain cases anti-Semitism.
Honoring the achievements of Father Patrick Desbois of Yahad In Unum at the United Nations who works tirelessly to locate the mass graves of our ancestors who were killed by the Nazis.
Rabbi Niederman in Barcelona with the the US Consulate General at the reburial of Jewish graves that were uprooted.
Rabbi Niederman in Malta working to protect the Jewish Catacombs.
(R-L) Harav Schlesinger of Geneva, Harav Malkiel Kotler, Rosh Yeshiva (Dean) of Lakewood Yeshiva Beth Medrash Gevoha, Rabbi Niederman, Harav Uher Kalmanowitz, Rosh Yeshiva – Mir Brooklyn, Rabbi Yecheskel Kalmanowitz and Dr. Schaps, viewing a miniature of the plan for the Sports Palace and the surrounding area in Vilnius City Hall. The delegation demanded that the plan be cancelled and the holy site protected and preserved.
In Vilnius, Lithuana urging the protection and preservation of the historic Vilnius Jewish cemetery.