Jewish Cemeteries and Burial Culture in Europe

The ICOMOS Conference 2011 “Jewish Cemeteries and Burial Culture in Europe“ at the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee is the follow-up conference of the International conference in Munic in November 2005, hosted by ICOMOS Germany on “The Civil Death / Burial Urban Culture from Enlightenment to the early 20th Century“. Decided on the initiative of the Berlin Jewish Community, Senate and House of Representatives of Berlin notified in 2006 to sign up the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee for the proposal list of the Federal Republic of Germany for the nomination as a World Heritage Site. The responsible Senate departments and the Berlin Monument Authority, the Jewish Community and the Centrum Judaicum of Berlin have started in 2007 a research and development project for assessment and evaluation of more than 110,000 grave monuments. In April 2008 those responsible and the Technical University of Berlin were able to present first working results to an international group of experts. In connection with the inquiry of grave monuments the recent results will now be presented at this conference for discussion and advice.

Organisation:
International Conference of ICOMOS Germany and the Berlin Monument Authority in cooperation with the Jewish Community of Berlin, the Centrum Judaicum and the Museum of Sepulchral Culture in Kassel.

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