"We had no energy left over to work on the old cemetery," explains Cesare Vivante, head of the committee on Jewish monuments.
Approached for their opinion, one said simply, "It's a Jewish monument."
For Israel, it was the most significant part of the war, as it resulted in the capture of many important Jewish monuments by the Israelis.
In 1994, President Shevardnadze issued a decree to protect Jewish religious, cultural and historic monuments.
Wartime bombing destroyed most of the Jewish monuments as well as much of the city.
The map of the city included in the book is perfectly valid even today - except the part that shows the Jewish monuments.
In 1999, a Jewish monument was raised.
It also takes an active role in the preservation of Jewish historical monuments that are considered a part of the national heritage of Poland.
The museum consists of six Jewish monuments clustered together in Josefov: the.
There is a threat of destruction of the Jewish cemetery which contained about 250 Jewish monuments ( till 1935).