Before World War ll, more than seven million Jews lived in Central and Eastern Europe. Jews inhabited these towns and villages for centuries. Across the continent, Jewish burial sites provided direct physical evidence of this presence. Eighty years on, all trace of many of these cemeteries has been lost, the result of the annihilation of their communities in the Holocaust. Centuries of Jewish settlement in Central and Eastern Europe have been erased from memory, along with the artefacts bearing witness to that lineage.
The ESJF project has begun the process of physically protecting Jewish burial sites across Europe, particularly in places where Jewish communities were wiped out in the Holocaust. Moreover, it has identified resources, limitations, costs, and general practical models in order to provide the prototype for  a sustainable, efficient long-term project, with the core objective of protecting and preserving every Jewish cemetery in Europe. The organization\\\\\'s core objective is protecting and preserving Jewish cemetery sites across Europe through the accurate delineation of cemetery boundaries and the construction of walls and locking gates.

There are around 10,000 known Jewish cemetery sites across the 46 member states of the Council of Europe. Roughly three quarters of these are located in Central and Eastern Europe, in what we have termed “designated areas for priority work”. ESJF is racing against the clock. Please help save Jewish heritage before it is too late!