BERLIN (EJP) --- Four Jewish sites are under consideration by a Germany committee for proposal as UNESCO World Heritage sites, it has been announced.

The locations, which comprise Jewish cemeteries in Berlin and Hamburg, the Old Synagogue of Erfurt and the federation of SHUM cities, are amongst a group of 24 German historical sites to be considered by a German board for recommendation to the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation as a place of global cultural significance.

Thirty-seven German locations are currently included on the list of World Heritage sites, although as none of those are of Jewish significance, neither are the 10 others already under UNESCO consideration, the four would represent the first German Jewish sites to be included on the list, should any application come to fruition.

Other sites under consideration in Germany include The Palace of Justice, the location for the infamous Nuremberg Trials, a series of high-profile military tribunals held by the victorious allied forces to prosecute prominent wartime Nazis. The Palace of Justice was specifically chosen to house the trials, as the city was known as the ceremonial birthplace of Nazism in Germany.