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Miodowa Cemetery Project - Photos Available!
We recently announced a project to computerize all the matzeivas
(tombstones) in Krakow's Miodowa Street cemetery. (Click
here
for details). Thanks to Lili Haber, this is now nearing completion and we are now able to offer the following service...
On 1st August 2003, Mr. B. Yaari (the compiler of the cemetery
list) will be visiting Krakow together with a group of about 100 students from
Israel's "Gymnasia Hertzelia". They will try to take pictures of
ALL the matzeivas! The images will be used to verify the computerized list
and will, hopefully, be placed on the Krakow website at a later stage.
In the meantime, anyone who wishes to obtain a photo of a
specific matzeiva need simply do the following:
- Contact Lili Haber
and let her know what surname you are looking for. Also let her know what,
if any, projects you have volunteered for in the past (see the reason
below).
- Lili will then check to see if that name appears on the
computerized list. If so, then the students will make a special effort to
take a photo of that matzeiva. This shouldn't be too difficult since
Mr. Yaari's list contains names PLUS the location of the matzeiva.
- The image will then be e-mailed to you.
- This service will cost $10 per image, but will be provided
FREE to any researcher who volunteers or who has volunteered in the past.
(Ah, the benefits of volunteering!).
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The money raised by this service will be used for further Krakow research,
possibly even producing a book with all the images.
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