Re: [Cz-L] Area of cemetery cleared by hired workers, future plans and other concerns.

The work so far ,can be divided in 3 division by area and concern:
 1. The welcome area around the ceremonial hall.
     As this is also the main entry and start of the main alley it contains
     many important graves and mausoleums and also the wailing wall -
       an assembly of broken grave stones. This will in the future become a
visitors center of the promised Holocaust Museum .So we were told.
              It is relatively clean and accessible.
         The iron fences and metalworks are rusty - the ceremonial hall is
a ruin.

  2. The Bursuc project: Mimi's intention was to have the hectare project
as a 2 plot wide
        strip parallel to the main alley. It became a perpendicular strip
almost to the
        limit of the cemetery. But it really makes no difference.

  3. The Swit project this year concentrates on two plots : 38 and 96 ,one
by the alley and
        the other in the middle. I can easily guess why . They contain mass
graves :
        One is the Holocaust mass grave and the other the Jewish Austrian
soldiers of WW1.
         As Julia M. from Swit wants to put posters to the main attractions
these must be accessible and respectable.

          The Rumanian mass grave, an attraction by itself ,
           is beautifully maintained by the Rumanians.

       And the main entry plate is to read :
     " You are welcome to the Czernowitz Jewish Cemetery where 100,000 Jews
are buried "

     Hardy
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:09 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Area of cemetery cleared by hired workers, future plans and
other concerns.

> One of my aims in going to Chernivtsi, was to measure the size of the area
> cleared by the workers hired by Dr. Bursuk through the cemetery
> administration and to check on the quality of the work they did.
> I knew that the area they cleared was not the area I had asked them to
> clear
> and therefore wanted to see the situation for myself.
>
> In previous letters to the list I sometimes claimed that the area cleared
> by
> the SVIT Ukraine volunteers last year, was area #32. I was wrong in this.
> Areas #32 and #29 are generally kept clear by the cemetery administration.
> The area cleared by the volunteers in 2008 was the southern half of area
> #33
> and possibly area #30. Please look at the satellite map on the "ehpes"
> website. You will notice that slightly less than half of area 33 is
> cleared.
> The workers hired by Dr. Bursuk cleared the remainder of area #33and a
> strip
> of land to the north, the whole area measuring 52.5m wide and about 190m
> long. 52.5 X 190 = 9975 square meter, which is just slightly less than one
> hectare.
>
> In the area they cleared, they cut all the saplings and they cut them as
> low
> as possible. The photographs Edgar Hauster took in June show this better
> than the photographs I took. Where they had to cut saplings which grew
> very
> close to gravestones, they did not damage the stones.
> The cemetery administration has been permitted to use a mix of herbicides
> and they intend to do so, on a regular basis. I have the Ukrainian names
> of
> these herbicides, but have as yet not had time to research their
> effectiveness. From what I could see, they were certainly effective in the
> short term.
>
> I talked to both Dr. Bursuk and to Anzhela Nikolaeva about continuing this
> work and was advised that they could hire people to clear another hectare
> or
> two in the fall, probably in October and November.
>
> Sasha Wolloch, Wolfi Schaechter and I, expect to have a not for profit
> organization with proper bylaws and a bank account established in the next
> few weeks and I hope that at that time members of this list will be
> willing
> to join this organization and to donate money toward continuing the work
> of clearing the cemetery of sapling trees and climbing vines.
>
> I talked to a number of people in Chernivtsi about the possibility of
> hiring
> an independent contractor to do the clearing work. Unfortunately, no one
> could advise me on how to find such a contractor.
>
> I also met with the mayor, Mr. M. Fedoruk and asked for his help in
> restoring and maintaining the cemetery. He told me that currently the
> Jewish
> cemetery is a protected area under city law, but that he would try to
> obtain
> for it the status of a nationally protected monument. Then he may get
> money
> for its restoration and maintenance from the government. He also seemed to
> be willing to make sure that better care is taken of the areas already
> cleared.
>
> I am fairly certain that both ASF and SVIT Ukraine will have additional
> work-camps to clear the cemetery, in 2010. ASF will have experts in
> righting
> and erecting gravestones among next year's volunteers.
>
> Mimi

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