Looks that the video is of the "old" part.
It seems that the old part was used until ~1910 ( and very few recent graves from the 1970's and 1980's).
As first Jews settled in GH from around 1848, I assume that this part was in use from 1848 till about WW1
Interesting:
-Different sections for men and women.
-Many graves has lions engraved (to me it looks like a sick cat...). We thought that this was the grave maker favorite figure (besides the symbol of Judea).
-Most of the gravestones are missing names and dates. Looks that the gravestone "was pre-casted", and when needed, the name and date were added at the bottom.
For mother they chose stone with two hands and candles (5 candles, any idea why 5?) , for Cohen two hands with split fingers, etc.
Sometime the nameplate fell, some time, when it was metal, it was stolen, and sometimes the bushes together with the weather erodes the inscriptions. In most cases it is very soft limestone.
Oren
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From: Hardy Breier [mailto:hardy3_at_bezeqint.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 3:14 PM
To: Saraf, Oren; 'Christian Herrmann'; 'Bruce Reisch'
Cc: 'CZERNOWITZ-L'
Subject: תשובה: Re: [Cz-L] A book and new travels coming
Dear Oren.
Thank you for the links .
The GH cemetery video shows 50% of stones are falling due to bad masonry.
How old are they ? 100-200 years ?
Without intervention they will all collapse.
The jewish cemetery in Worms is over 1000 years old and in a better condition.
Hardy
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