23 April 2009
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We’ve just finished celebrating Pesach, the ultimate preservation of memory festival. And at the Lo Tishkach Foundation, we’re in a race against time to preserve the memory. Where there were once thousands of Jewish communities across eastern and central Europe each looking after their own cemeteries, today many of these burial sites lay unprotected. |
Physically identifying these burial grounds is the first practical step to preserving them. Knowing where they are and having the information readily available is the first prerequisite to identifying them.
We desperately need to catalogue all this data before it disappears, to place it online as a permanent resource – as a permanent memory. And that’s why we need your help, or more precisely, your time.
We need to place on our database still more thousands of records and in each of those records we need to fill in as much information as possible.
If you have a few minutes spare, maybe a couple of hours a week, a reasonable level of English and a good ADSL connection, we’d like you to help us so that we get down all the information on every cemetery and every mass grave online and get it down quickly.
We can’t pay you for this but you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that whenever someone is searching for the burial site of an antecedent, you helped them locate that long-lost site. That the reason the record is available for everybody is because of those few minutes you gave to preserve the memory.
If you think you can help, just contact us at info@lo-tishkach.org and we’ll show you how to join our team of Lo Tishkach data recorders.
It probably took you a couple of minutes to read this – that’s about the time it takes to put another cemetery on the database.
But don’t just keep this to yourself. Pass this message on, anybody can help preserve the memory.
Thanks for reading this,
Philip Carmel
Executive Director
