Re: [Cz-L] Film received about CZ Cemetary

One more note with regard to this film. When I saw the gentleman who wanted
to charge us $100 per grave in the film, I was turned off immediately. He
was the only person in the 2 weeks that we were in the Ukraine who tried to
take advantage of us! No doubt that their proposal for cleaning up the
cemetery was outrageous. And while we were at the cemetery, there were a few
men there who were in the same mentality. We had to pay money to one of them
to borrow his ax by the hour. I know everyone needs to take care of
themselves but it just seemed so weird in such a sacred place. Does anyone
know what kind of funds they have raised and what their foundation has
actually done so far.

Ilana


On 5/5/09 10:42 PM, "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:

> Thank you Ilana for sending us the photographs, the account of your trip
> and the movie from rabbi Glissenstein. By the way there are two rabbis in
> Chernivtsi. And this is the first time that I hear that one of them is
> chief.
> I am puzzled that in the movie it is claimed that the cemetery was recently
> vandalized. The claim is that hundreds of graves were vandalized.
> If that were so, surely Sasha and I walking in the cemetery 10 days ago,
> would have noticed at least one such grave. To the best of my knowledge,
> the cemetery has not been vandalized recently, if ever.
> I believe that metal surrounds were occasionally removed during WW2, because
> of the shortage of metal. Some gravestones are broken, either because large
> branches from old trees fell on them, or because they were damaged when new
> graves were dug carelessly.
>
> Rabbi Glissenstein, in 2006 presented me with a proposal (in Russian) to
> have the cemetery restored for $200 000.
>
> Mimi
>
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