I VISITED KOVEL-Volyn Ukraine IN SEPTEMBER 2012

I WAS TOLD BY OUR GUIDE THAT PARTS OF TOMBSTONES
FROM THE "NEW" JEWISH CEMETERY WERE FOUND IN THE MILITARY CAMP
THAT WAS LOCATED NEAR THE AREA OF THE CEMETERY
WHICH IS BARE NOW - ONLY 1 TOMB REMAINED SOMEHOW.
TODAY, THE CENTER OF CULTURE OF KOVEL STANDS ON THE GROUNDS
OF THE once "NEW" JEWISH CEMETERY.

I AND MY GROUP VISITED THE CAMP AND TOOK PHOTOS OF THE BROKEN
TOMBSTONES. THE FHOTOS ARE ATTACHED.

OUR GUIDE SAID THAT THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF TOMBSTONES BURIED
under the earth, AT THE SITE OF THE CAMP. THE SITE WAS SOLD To PRIVATE
PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BUILT A HOTEL RIGHT THERE, BURYING THE TOMBSTONES UNDER THE NEW BUILDING.
THEY ARE WILLING TO LET THE JEWISH COMMUNITY REMOVE THE TOMBSTONES
from above and under the earth BEFORE THEY START building THE HOTEL - BUT there are no jews in kovel.
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF VOLYN managed to get a site from kovel municipality, where the removed tombstones can be put together, but they DO NOT HAVE THE SUM OF MONEY NECESSARY FOR salvaging the buried tombestones. It is too big a PROJECT AND THEY ARE VERY CONCERNED.

I AM writing THIS WITH THE HOPE THAT THE JEWs whose ROOTS were in KOVEL
WOULD BE willing and ABLE TO FINANCE ThIS SACRED MISSION

Sorry about the mixed fonts. I could not help it.


ANAT PEARLMUTER-SHABO (Ms.)
JERUSALEM-ISRAEL

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