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The Zelena market Sylvia mentioned.
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99476_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Sylvia de Swaan
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 11:29 PM
To: Marianne Hirsch
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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Project for renovation building at Jewish cemetery in C=
hernivtsi
Dear All - I also think it would be a great idea to have a Jewish/Holocaust=
museum in Cz but will vote with those who say, “not in that locati=
on.” I can picture the setting so well - have walked it many times =
from the center of town, as one turns onto Zelena it’s a very worki=
ng class neighborhood, the market on the right, the big trucks with produce=
, the people not unfriendly, bustling about their business - I have stopped=
sometimes to chat in my sign language Ukrainian or take pictures of them..=
.one walks further and there is that desolate bit and then one comes to the=
cemetery and the “burial chapel,” opposite the Ukrainian C=
emetery.
As a former Executive Director of an international arts organization and me=
mber of various arts alliances, I have often been party to discussions abou=
t the need for compatibility between the function of a site and the communi=
ty that surrounds it. What kind of audience is this museum going to seek to=
attract. And while it’s true that none of the memorials in the cen=
ter have been vandalized –they are located in lit up streets, visib=
le to passersby – however I think we’ve heard from time to =
time of vandalism in the cemetery itself.
I too was born in Czernowitz and share in the history of those deported to =
Transnistria – I’m also a photographer who has been going b=
ack since 1996 to recapture something of my lost personal history. I find =
the Leichenhalle very beautiful. Two years ago I used it as backdrop for po=
rtraits I took of the multinational volunteers who came to clear the cemete=
ry that summer. I found that most brilliant educational tool – a gr=
oup of fourteen young people, who came from Ukraine, Germany, Italy, France=
, Belgium, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Hungary, Holland and Japan - to learn about =
Jewish History while helping to clear segments of this overgrown cemetery i=
n the summer heat. Many of them have continued to stay in touch and attest =
that they’ve grown immensely from the experience.
My humble recommendation would to restore the chapel structurally and only =
minimally overlay a contemporary aesthetic to keep it from crumbling =
and dedicate it as a chapel, for meditation, for prayers, for peace.
Good wishes to all for 2016
Sylvia de Swaan
http://www.artphotoindex.com/SylviadeSwaan
www.sylviadeswaan.com
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