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Lanyi Menyhert-Propperne Bekefi Hermin,
Szlovenszkoi zsido hitkozsegei
tortenete (History of the Jewish Communities of
Slovakia). Kassa, 1933.
(In Hungarian)
Since Petr Ehl, Letohradska 18, Praha 7375661 surveyed almost all the cemeteries for The US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad [1101 Fifteenth Street, Suite 1040, Washington, D.C 20005 - http://www.preservationcommission.org/plrep.html#Cemeteries].
The World Monuments Fund survey for the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad] identified 1008 Jewish cemeteries within the territory of present day Poland. His name is not listed at each entry. Other sources, however, are noted. Surveys were filled out in 1992 after visits during the years of 1988 through 1992. Conditions may have changed in the interim. Petr Ehl calls serious vegetation problems 'waste dumping' which Joel Barries, Executive Director of the Commission, notes is not at all uncommon for cemeteries, especially those that might have been used by Hungarian Jews. However, Ehl may have meant abandoned. Unless indicated to the contrary, none of the cemeteries in Slovakia receive care or maintenance or there are no mass gravesites. The province is underlined in each entry and frequently corresponds to the nearest town listed.
UPDATE: "Leaders of Slovakias' Jewish community are calling for a
nationwide crackdown on attacks against the country's Jewish cemeteries. The
campaign follows an attack in which five recently-restored rare tombstons at
the Jewish cemetery in Zvolen were destroyed and six other were seriously
damaged. There were also two similar incidents in other Slovak towns, in
which 60 gravestones were damaged." Source: Dateline World Jewry [September
2001].
REFERENCE:
Barkany, Eugen. Zvidovske Nabozenske Obce Na Slovenska. ISBN 80-85128-56-X
Barkany, Eugen. Die juedischen Friedhoefe in der Slowakei; [Jewish Cemeteries in Slovakia] as of 1966, published by Frank Komjati [Vienna] with some of his additions, in Zeitscrift fuer Geschichte der Juden: [see the following book]
Barkany, Eugen. Zeitschrift fuer Geschichte der Juden, Vol. X, Tel Aviv: _____ 1973. English summary by George Arnstein [Washington, DC]: Since 1945, I have visited more than 160 of the almost 700 cemeteries in Slovakia and witnessed their decline and deliberate destruction by Nazis and Slovak fascist helpers. Most cemeteries are outside the towns. Others are centrally located. Nearly all had a stone wall. Some were directly next to a forest. Others on steep slopes. The arrangement usually is by rows with the head of the dead toward the East. Men and women sometimes were segregated, even married couples. Kohanim usually were in the front rows near the entrance. Children's tombs were separate. Suicides usually separate next to the wall. Inscriptions typically were in Hebrew, later in German, Hungarian and Slovak most recently. Exhumations were not allowed. Some burials were in layers on top of each other. Source: George E. Arnstein email:
george.arnstein@verizon.net
Voice: 202-965-1664 * FAX:202-965-3848 in Washington, DC L'udovit Doj¸ 1991. Publisher?: Vydava Lel'stvo; VESNA Bratislava
Lanyi Menyhert-Propperne Bekefi Hermin, Szlovenszkoi
zsido hitkozsegei
tortenete (History of the Jewish Communities of
Slovakia). Kassa, 1933.
(In Hungarian)
Majtan, Milan. Nazvy obci slovenskej republiky ---1773-1997. The Slovak Academy in Bratislava, 1998. The book is a compendium of alphabetized names of Slovak towns between 1773 and 1997. Source: Dolph Klein, Chapel Hill, NC; e-mail: kledolph@acpub.duke.edu
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