Re: [Cz-L] THE volunteer cleaning of the cemetery in our city.

Dear all,
I do not agree with Miriam that each one of us should send a personal
message I feel this isn't enough. I wrote to Cristian Hermann a personal
letter which developped into a most pleasant exchange of letters, but I fee=
l
that the organizations and organizers should get a common big thank you.
After 40 years of working in El Al they sent my husband a kind of metal
plaque mounted on wood "in recognition for services rendered" , this, of
course, was personal but is certainly can be made to fit a school or an
organization, it should be nice and made in good taste.
anny

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote=
:

> Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
>
> In response to Anny Matar's letter:
>
> Like Anny, I feel that we owe the organizers and the volunteers who worke=
d
> to clear part of the Chernivtsi Jewish cemetery a great debt of gratitude=
.
> We cannot send them a giant poster, but we can send each of them a
> thank-you
> message and we could contribute money to the organizations to which they
> belong and on who's behalf they did this generous work.
>
> The first person we owe thanks to, is Christian Hermann, a member of this
> list. It was his idea to ask various volunteer organizations to hold a
> work-camp for the clearing of the cemetery. It was he, who gave me a list
> of
> organizations to write to, it was he who advised me to write to the city
> authorities in order to gain their support. You might say that he guided
> and helped me at every step of the way. Once we found organizations willi=
ng
> to undertake the project, he stayed in contact with them and is continuin=
g
> to do so. He also contributed from his own funds towards the expenditures
> of
> the work-camp. Christian works for:
> Fachkr=E4fteportal der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe
> - Webredaktion -
> www.jugendhilfeportal.de
>
>
> Next we owe thanks to Mr. John Meyers of SCI Germany. I had written him,
> asking whether his organization could send a group of volunteers to clear
> the cemetery. It happens that his organization could not organize a
> work-camp for this year, because their schedule was already full. So it w=
as
> John Meyers of SCI Germany who contacted Julia Miyasyshevka of SVIT Ukrai=
ne
> and helped her to organize the work-camp. He has already promised to assi=
st
> in further work-camps next year. SCI stands for Service Civil
> International.
> Their website is: <www.sci-d.de>
>
> Third, but certainly not least, we owe thanks to Julia Miyasyshevka of SV=
IT
> Ukraine, who:
> 1. Persuaded Chernivtsi city officials to extend assistance to the
> volunteers, in the form of housing and to provide some workers to cut dow=
n
> the sapling trees which fill the cemetery.
> 2. Publicized and organized the work-camp and made all the local
> arrangements. She too, is thinking of continuing this project next year a=
nd
> on a larger scale. SVIT Ukraine is an organization created to aid the
> activities of volunteer organizations in the Ukraine. Their website is:
> <www.svit.ukraine.org>
>
> Then we owe thanks to the two "on location" organizers; Jasmin Sohner fro=
m
> Germany and Barbara Chmielowska from Poland. They were responsible for al=
l
> work being done in the cemetery and for the welfare of the volunteers.
> They worked with the volunteers in clearing the cemetery and they all
> worked
> hard.
>
> And finally we owe thanks to each of the volunteers, who came from
> Australia, Germany, France, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden and the USA and
> those local volunteers, who joined the others, when they learned of the
> work-camp from the local media and hand-outs by the volunteers.
> We should also remember that the volunteers paid their own expenses in
> order
> to come to Chernivtsi.
>
> I have no detailed information about the students from the local school,
> who also volunteered to work in clearing the cemetery, but we certainly
> owe them and their teacher or school principal great many thanks.
>
> I suggest that we as a group write to each of these people to express our
> gratitude and publicize their selfless actions, by writing to newspapers
> and
> newsletters, tell the story to our friends and relatives and contribute t=
o
> the funds of the organizations involved.
>
> I would like one or more members of the list, to volunteer to get these
> thank-you notes to the appropriate people;
> Write and/or design the notes, collect the signatures of members of the
> list
> and mail them to each of the organizers, each of the volunteers and also =
to
> those who were willing to help the volunteers, while they were in
> Chernivtsi.
>
> Among these, let me mention Dr. Bursuk, Rabbi Kofmanski and Natalya
> Shevchenko.
>
> I agree with Anny, do not let grass grow over this,
>
> Mimi
>
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