Re: [Cz-L] Areas of cemetery cleared as of Aug 19, 2009

Mimi
Where is plot 137 ?
Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:00 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Areas of cemetery cleared as of Aug 19, 2009

> As promised, I would like to tell you which areas of the cemetery have
> been
> cleared of weedy sapling trees and bushes and creepers.
> I walked over all the accessible parts of the cemetery in order to gather
> this information and I measured some areas with a measuring tape. Except
> for
> additional areas which may have been cleared by the SVIT Ukraine
> volunteers
> in the last few days, I believe this information to be accurate and up to
> date.
>
> The numbers by which each area is designated are taken from the official
> cemetery map, put out by the cemetery administration. This map is posted
> on
> the "ehpes" site.
>
> The cleared areas are: 9, 10, 9A, 10A, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 53, 54, 55, 56,
> 59, 60, 75, 76, 81, 82, 98, 99, 104, 105 an 137.
> The volunteers were working on areas 57 and 58.
> Areas 38 and 96 are semi-clear.
> The paths between adjacent cleared areas, are also cleared and so is the
> long path running north-south along areas 33, 53, 60, 75, 82, 98 and 105,
> as well as the two main paths; one north-south and one leading from the
> main
> gate on Zelena street to the west side of the cemetery.
>
> Most of the areas which have been cleared of sapling trees have been
> sprayed
> with herbicides and those which had not been sprayed yet, I was promised
> by
> Anzhela Nikolaeva, the cemetery administrator, would be sprayed as soon as
> the volunteers would finish their work. In the cleared areas, large old
> trees, which are diseased or threaten to break, have partially been cut
> down
> and some will be cut as soon as they can get properly qualified people to
> do
> the work. This summer some of the trees which were cut and burned where
> they
> fell caused damage to gravestones. Both Dr. Bursuk and Mr. Lev Kleyman,
> the
> former head of the Jewish community and a current city council member,
> will
> make sure that these sort of incidents do not reoccur.
>
> At this time I would like to ask, that if any of you plan on visiting
> Chernivtsi in the near future, you take photographs of the northern part
> of
> the cemetery, of which we currently have no photographs and also
> investigate
> the exact northern boundaries of the cemetery.
>
> Mimi

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