All current as well as potential future Lo Tishkach project partners from Ukraine, Latvia and Lithuania met at a seminar in Kiev April 14-15. During the seminar, current partners presented their ongoing projects and discussed various issues linked to large-scale educational surveys of Jewish cemeteries and mass graves in Eastern Europe.
The ‘Erudit’ Secondary School in the Ukrainian town of Tarascha has launched a project to improve access to a local Holocaust mass grave site. Trees have been planted to point the way towards the burial ground, which is located inside a ravine. As part of the project, the school’s pupils learn about the Holocaust and how it wiped out the local Jewish community.
About 100 youth involved in the Lithuanian Lo Tishkach project attended a seminar in the Lithuanian town of Trakai during the first weekend of May. In the course of the seminar, participants learnt about Jewish cemetery and heritage issues and visited a local Holocaust mass grave site.
The Jewish cemetery at Kristinivka in Cherkasy region of central Ukraine is to receive special protection from the local town council following representations by the local Jewish community and the Lo Tishkach Foundation.
A group of 17 volunteers has restored the Jewish Cemetery in Talsi, Latvia. As previously reported, the cemetery was vandalised in October last year, only three months after the group had carried out clean-up and restoration works at the site.
