Dear all,
I have not followed all the communication on the subject, however am
extremely excited about the initiative. I am not sure what is needed and if
any help was solicited, but if needed, I am happy to be involved. One of my
family members (married to a granddaughter of a CZ transnistria victim) is
an expert restoration architect in Israel who visited the hall with us when
we were there on a roots trip. If anybody is interested in his potential
help, please let me know. I do still hope that we manage to also restore the
big synagogue and personally am hoping we can still help the poor condition
of the CZ hospital . Resources are of course the keyword.
Gadi
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Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Project for renovation building at Jewish cemetery in
Chernivtsi
http://pics.livejournal.com/whasup/pic/00xx8f46
The Zelena market Sylvia mentioned.
Hardy
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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Project for renovation building at Jewish cemetery in
Chernivtsi
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 location." 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 working 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 Cemetery.
As a former Executive Director of an international arts organization and
member of various arts alliances, I have often been party to discussions
about the need for compatibility between the function of a site and the
community 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
center have been vandalized -they are located in lit up streets, visible 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 back 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 portraits I took of
the multinational volunteers who came to clear the cemetery that summer. I
found that most brilliant educational tool - a group 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 in 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
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