Project Description

2016 to 2017 | Unsleben, Bavaria, Germany | With Yale IPCH and the Rhön-Gymnasium

When a community disappears, it leaves physical evidence behind: public buildings, homes, cemeteries and objects. This project documented the Jewish cemetery of Unsleben, a small town in northern Bavaria where up to 250 Jews lived for several centuries, until the Nazi period, when the last of them were deported to Izbica in eastern Poland and murdered.

The project combined historical research, cross-cultural education and imaging technologies, and involved students in hands-on historical research. It grew into a cooperation between Yale University, the Hadassah Academic College and the Rhön-Gymnasium Bad Neustadt, dedicated to reconciliation and understanding.

Team. Coordinator: Hadassah Academic College. Partners: Prof. Moshe Caine, Doron Altaratz and Eyal Tagar (HAC); Günter Henneberger (Rhön-Gymnasium Bad Neustadt); Prof. Stefan Simon (Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Yale University); Prof. Josef Hesselbach, historian. Supported by the Unsleben town council.

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