Re: [Cz-L] Summercamp Czernowitz 2012 - ASF

Dear Kate and all Czernowitzers.

Thank you Kate and thanks to ASF for again holding a summer camp
at the Jewish cemetery in Czernowitz/Chernivtsi.
The work which ASF does at the cemetery is invaluable to all who wish
to preserve
this resting-ground of our ancestors. The volunteers work very
carefully and also
study the tombstones and the invasive plants around them, in order to
better
understand the past culture of the Jewish community, better preserve
the stones
and more effectively eradicate the plants which threaten to destroy
the cemetery.

I would like to encourage all who might want to participate in the
upcoming work-camp,
to do so, even if you come just for a few days. I too, will be in
Czernowitz
during the first few days of the work-camp.
Also, please follow up on Kate's invitation to contact the volunteers
in order
to have a particular grave attended to.
If you do not know the location of the grave, I might be able to help
you locate it.
Just let me know the name of the deceased and if you know it, also
the date of death.

Best regards ,

Mimi

    On Jun 11, 2012, at 12:03 PM, K. Power wrote:

> Dear Czernowitzers,
>
> My name is Kate Power and I am pleased to take again a group of
> sixteen
> elderly volunteers to work on the Czernowitz Jewish cemetery, now
> for the
> third year. With some of you we had a very pleasant an interesting
> communication via Facebook last year.
> http://www.facebook.com/sommerlager.czernowitz
>
> There are so many lives and stories hidden behind the grey stones
> of the
> cemetery. Whilst I was unveiling the inscriptions of the tombstone,
> I was
> asking myself: who was this person, how did she live or how did he
> look
> like, who are the children mentioned as grieving. So I had the
> idea, it
> would be more personal if each of us cleaned also a grave of your
> ancestors
> in Czernowitz. We could get in touch in advance or during our stay in
> Czernowitz via email and know more about Jewish life before the war in
> Czernowitz.
>
> Who would like to join the group virtually and knows the
> coordinates of the
> tombstone, is more then welcome. Everyone of us would try to find
> and to
> clean the grave and give the others of the group an impression
> about the
> life of that person.
>
> Best regards
> Kate

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