New Exploring Jewish History Amongst Maps

The Vilnius Ghetto was a Jewish ghetto established too operated past times Nazi Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany inwards the metropolis of Vilnius, Lithuania. During the 2 years of its existence, starvation, disease, street executions, maltreatment too deportations to concentration camps too extermination camps reduced the population of the ghetto from an estimated 40,000 to zero.

Exploring the Vilnius Ghetto: H5N1 Digital Monument is a Leaflet powered map that shows over 2 hundred points of historical significance, pulled from memoirs, archives, master copy Ghetto documents too artifacts, too oral too historical accounts. Users tin cease explore the map on their own, using filters to detect places too events of interest; or they tin cease follow built-in stories.


Caminos de Sefarad uses Google Maps too Google Maps Street View to allow users to catch too tour Castilian cities too uncovering Spain’s Jewish past. Clicking on a map marking opens an data window alongside historical data almost the selected location too the alternative to sentiment a 360º panorama using Street View.

The mapped locations tin cease move explored past times category, type, geographic zone too date. In total, 523 sites, 910 dates, too 1,683 pictures convey been mapped.


The Interactive Museum of Jewish Montreal is a Google Map exploring locations that are of import inwards Montreal's Jewish history from its origins inwards the 1760s until today.

The map allows users to explore Jewish history inwards Montreal past times engagement too past times category. The categories include architecture, culture, events too many more. 


Since 1997 German linguistic communication creative individual Gunter Demnig has been creating memorials for private victims of the Holocaust. Demnig's stolpersteine (stumbling blocks) are small, cobblestone-sized memorials for private victims of Nazism.

Each stolperstein is placed inwards the sidewalk exterior the victim's home. Stolpersteine Online is a Google Map of the memorials that convey been erected. The projection has created almost 35,000 stumbling blocks too hence far. This is a real pocket-size per centum of the full release of victims of the Holocaust, withal if y'all zoom inwards on whatsoever German linguistic communication metropolis on this map y'all soundless can't neglect to move overwhelmed past times the sheer scale of the Nazis Holocaust. 

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