Thank you Mr. Hermann for the pictures/
Thank you Miriam for the efforts you made and the wonderful outcome. It's
amazing to see how close the graves are standing, a claustrophobic feeling
isn't it??.
It seems like an endless job.
Thanks for all your efforts,
anny
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>wrote=
:
> Dear All,
>
> Christian's photographs show how beautiful and unique some of the
> gravestones in the Czernowitz/Chernivtsi Jewish cemetery are. It also sho=
ws
> that many of these stones are in danger of falling and breaking.
> As more and more of the cemetery is cleared of sapling trees, bushes and
> vines, it is time to think about the next step in restoring and maintaini=
ng
> this cemetery, which is the preservation of individual stones, at least
> those of greatest artistic value.
>
> To preserve these stones we shall need professional advice and financial
> help. If any of you have any ideas or advice about whom we can apply to f=
or
> such help, please let me know.
>
> Eventually we may need to set up a committee or organization for the
> preservation of the artistically valuable gravestones. At least currently=
,
> CJCRO is concentrating its efforts on removing all the weedy vegetation a=
nd
> securing the path of the cemetery.
>
> In the next few days, I will write and send a report on how the work at t=
he
> cemetery is proceeding to the membership of CJCRO.
>
> Mimi
>
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