Now both voluntary services – SVIT Ukraine and Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (ARSP) – are working at the Jewish Cemetery of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) to clear it from rampant vegetation. While ARSP started earlier this week, SVIT will end its work-camp by the end of the week. Also volunteers of the Jewish community joined the clean-up. Old time Czernowitzers Mimi Taylor and Sylvia de Swaan visited the volunteers of both groups in the morning.
Today is Ukraine’s Independence Day and people are celebrating in the streets. A good reason to think about the contribution of Ukrainian independence to the preservation of Jewish heritage and rebirth of Jewish life.
Volunteers working in the Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz)
Volunteers working in the Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz)
Volunteers working in the Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz)
Volunteers working in the Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz)
Volunteers working in the Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz)
Volunteers working in the Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz)
Mimi Taylor meeting the volunteers working in the Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz)
Volunteers working in the Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz)
Volunteers working in the Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz)
Volunteers working in the Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz)
Volunteers working in the Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi (Czernowitz)
Flag decoration during Independence Day
Celebrating Independence Day
Celebrating Independence Day
Celebrating Independence Day
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