Dear Edgar, dear all,
When I was recently in Mizoch, Volhynia, I saw one of the cemeteries fenced in by ESJF. While the fence marks the territory of the cemetery and protects it from being illegally build over, it creates also a new problem. A cemetery needs permanent care, otherwise it will be quickly overgrown by rampant vegetation. What often contributes to permanent care are the goats and sheeps of neighbouring farmers. They are the cheapest and most efficient grass mowers, but are locked out by a fence.
A good practice example is in the Galician town of Bolechiv. The organisation of descendants of Bolechiv Jews built a massive wall around the cemetery. They made an arrangment with a local farmer who keeps the key for the cemetery, opens and closes the gate for visitors. He got the exclusive right to have his goats and sheeps on the cemetery. This arrangment also sets a signal, that fencing in is not a sign of distrust against local residents, but a aubject of cooperation. Bolechiv cemetery is the best protected and one of the best maintained I saw in Ukraine, but protection and maintenance need more than a fence.
A Happy New Year and best wishes to all of you!
Christian
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 04. Januar 2017 um 10:12 Uhr
Von: "Edgar Hauster" <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>
An: "Czernowitz Discussion Group" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Betreff: [Cz-L] The ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative
The ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative was set up as a German-based non-profit organization in early 2015 with the core objective of protecting and preserving Jewish cemetery sites across the European continent through delineation of cemetery boundaries and the construction of cemetery walls and locking gates. It was Dr. Mariana Hausleitner, who drew my attention to the ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative. The Ehpes Blog brings a new and short video clip to you:
http://ehpes.com/blog1/?p=9852
Funded in 2015 through a pilot grant of 1,000,000 euros from the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, the ESJF is now working on some 30 individual protection projects in four European countries. 33 cemeteries were completed in 2015, i. e. 9,888 meters of fencing; over 60 sites were completed by the end of 2016, that is 11,876 meters of fencing.
Why not in Bukovina (and Galicia) too? Tons of work to be done!
Edgar Hauster
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