Re: [Cz-L]You Better Steer Clear of Nadvirna en Route to Ivano-Frankivsk...

Dear Hardy, Dear Yosef,

Please let me make some additions to my previous posting on the Nadvirna Jewish Cemetery:

http://hauster.blogspot.de/2013/10/you-better-steer-clear-of-nadvirna-en.html

Hardy...

Of course, you are right, "all will go, first the far away places, then all the rest", but even this inevitable process doesn't have necessarily to happen, like in Nadvirna, without paying any respect to the Jewish heritage of our ancestors, to their life, their sufferance and their death. No more Jewish life in this rural Ukrainian area, it's a fact, although hard to accept, but even not even a resting place for the deceased, completely unacceptable!

Yosef...

I took in total 60 photos of the - remains of the - Nadvirna Jewish Cemetery and all of them show, that nothing has been done at least for years to maintain the cemetery. It's not only the status of the cemetery itself, the hostile surroundings, discontinued industry, apartment blocks, one family houses, are doing one last thing. To make it very clear: The Nadvirna Municipality owns the territory, so it has imperatively to maintain the cemetery, otherwise it doesn't meet European and/or international standards and it will have to face the consequences. But apparently they don't care and I got the strong feeling, that there might be other interests involved in keeping this cemetery as a blot on the landscape. Financial aspects don't explain the abnormal degree of decay; no huge sum of money is needed to recover at least the headstones from the mud.

My next posting, dear Hardy, dear Yosef, will introduce another example case, by far not so depressing as the Nadvirna case.

Edgar Hauster <iPad>
Lent • The Netherlands
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