[Cz-L] Old "Parcel" numbers vs. new "Area" numbers at the Cz. Jewish Cemetery

Dear Czernowitzers -

As some of you prepare to visit Czernowitz, and to find the final
resting place of departed friends and relatives, you will need a good
map of the cemetery showing the correspondence between the pre WWII
Parcel numbering system and the post-WWII Area numbering system. If
you're up to date on the JGS Ottawa sponsored project to create an
electronic burial registry for the Czernowitz Cemetery, and to index
digital images of every tombstone, you'll know that we have access to
a fairly complete burial register from the 1800s through 1948. But
the locations given are according to the pre WWII Parcel system.
Until now, we did not have a map showing the locations of these
parcels. We've only had a map of the cemetery showing the locations
of each "Area".

Working with the tombstone images (which are grouped in folders
according to the Area system) in conjunction with the electronic
burial register, I've created a map showing the correspondence of
Areas to the old Parcels. For many reasons, this map won't be
perfect, but it is reasonably accurate. I've superimposed the Parcel
numbers in "red" on the recent cemetery plot map provided to the
Czernowitz-L web site by Mimi Taylor. You can view this map as
follows:

Go to http://czernowitz.ehpes.com
On the left side of your web browser, click on "Czernowitz Cemetery Projects"
In the new window on the right, click on "Bruce Reisch's cross reference map".

Parcel numbers for Areas 82, 98, and 99 don't make sense, but I left
them numbered this way since I found tombstone images from the
Parcels shown in the map in each of these three Area folders. Also,
there are no Parcel numbers provided for Areas 4A through 13 since
most of the burials in these Areas are post-WWII, inscribed in
Russian and Hebrew, and they do not appear in the pre WWII burial
registers that I used to create this map.

So - questions are welcome, and suggestions for improvements to the
map are also most welcome.

Bruce Reisch
Geneva, New York
Received on 2006-03-14 13:40:08