Mogilev Podolsky cemetery project By Sylvie Gsell France

Mogilev – Podolsky cemetery project By Sylvie Gsell France April 2013

Mohyliv-Podilskyi is a town in the Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion (district), in the Vinnytsia Oblast (province) on the border with Bessarabia and Moldova. Before WWII, the Jewish population was 9, 000. 2010 : Jewish population is about 250.

The cemetery has around 17 ha (43 acres) and is in two sections: - the first section has 1700 widely-spaced graves - the second section has a large number of very closely-spaced graves

The first section

Second section

My project : -Promote the Facebook page : has now 89 members in seven months -Create databases online : - one register in Latin letters (Sylvie’s pictures) - one register in Cyrillic– to be translated (Marla Raucher Osborn‘s pictures ) - Book about to be published by daughter of Jacob Drucker - with all the documents and lists from Holocaust era burials

My project : -Contact the Mayor of the city, which owns the cemetery, and explain our aims : creating a website about the cemetery explaining its history, and develop online grave databases in several languages (French, English, German, Ukrainian) - Organize a new trip in September 2014 with some members of the group to meet with town officials about all matters concerning the Jewish cemetery

I HAVE A DREAM…. YES, WE CAN !