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Auction House Suspends Sale of 19th-Century Jewish Burial Records Auction House Suspends Sale of 19th-Century Jewish Burial Records Under Nazi rule in 1944, some 18,000 Jews were deported in six trains from the city of Cluj-Napoca in modern-day Romania to the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. They nearly all perished. Jewish homes, offices, archives and synagogues in Cluj were ransacked and …

Norwegian Archaeologists Discover Viking Age Ship Burial Norwegian Archaeologists Discover Viking Age Ship Burial Archaeologists using radar technology have discovered a millennium-old ship burial in southeastern Norway, at a site that they hope will offer clues about life during the period after the fall of the Roman Empire through the end of the Viking Age. Lars Gustavsen, a researcher at …

In South Africa, Burial Traditions Upended by Coronavirus In South Africa, Burial Traditions Upended by Coronavirus KHAYELITSHA, South Africa — In ordinary times, there would have been no question where Zinzile Mweli would be buried: alongside his ancestors in the village where he was born. But when Mr. Mweli, a minibus taxi owner, died last month from Covid-19 in Cape …

French Muslims Face a Cruel Coronavirus Shortage: Burial Grounds French Muslims Face a Cruel Coronavirus Shortage: Burial Grounds PARIS — The middle-aged men, some wearing masks and gloves, leaned over a freshly excavated grave and gingerly slid a coffin into it. Arching their backs and bending their knees, they were burying a 60-year-old French-Moroccan woman in the Muslim section of …