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Mohyliv-Podilskyi Cemetery Project: Preserving Jewish History

Join us in preserving the history of Mohyliv-Podilskyi's Jewish cemetery. Help us promote the Facebook page, create online databases, and publish a book with all the documents and lists from Holocaust era burials. Contact the Mayor to discuss our aims and organize a trip to meet with town officials. Together, we can make a difference!

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Mohyliv-Podilskyi Cemetery Project: Preserving Jewish History

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  1. Mogilev – PodolskycemeteryprojectBy Sylvie GsellFrance April 2013

  2. Mohyliv-Podilskyiis a townin the Mohyliv-PodilskyiRaion(district), in the Vinnytsia Oblast (province) on the border withBessarabia and Moldova. BeforeWWII, the Jewish population was 9,000. 2010 : Jewish population is about 250.

  3. The cemetery has around 17 ha (43 acres) and is in two sections: the first section has 1700 widely-spaced graves the second section has a large number of veryclosely-spaced graves

  4. The first section

  5. Second section

  6. My project : Promote the Facebook page : has now 89 members in seven months Create databases online : - one register in Latin letters (Sylvie’s pictures) - one register in Cyrillic– to be translated (Marla Raucher Osborn‘s pictures ) - Book about to be published by daughter of Jacob Drucker - with all the documents and lists from Holocaust era burials

  7. Myproject: Contact the Mayor of the city, whichowns the cemetery, and explainouraims : creating a website about the cemeteryexplainingitshistory, and develop online grave databases in severallanguages (French,English,German,Ukrainian) Organize a new trip in September 2014 withsomemembers of the group to meetwithtownofficials about all mattersconcerning the Jewishcemetery

  8. I have a dream…. Yes, WE CAN !

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