International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies - Cemetery Project

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International Jewish Cemetery Project





A Non-Profit Volunteer Cooperative Initiative of
IAJGS: International Assocation of Jewish Genealogical Socities
and JewishGen, Inc's JOWBR
to Identify Jewish Burial Sites and Interments Throughout in the World


WHAT MAKES A CEMETERY JEWISH?

JEWISH DEATH AND MOURNING CUSTOMS
Information sources regarding death and mourning in Judaism.

ADDITIONAL USEFUL JEWISH BURIAL INFORMATION AND CUSTOMS LINKS
Information about
- interpreting, reading, photographing, and preserving Jewish gravestones
- funeral home and cemetery websites

BURIAL SITE DOCUMENTATION
     The International Jewish Cemetery Project documents international Jewish burial sites and interments. Initially launched in response to the increasing worldwide interest in Jewish ancestry and heritage, the project also now serves the broader community of cemetery management, funeral directors, Jewish heritage and monument organizations as well as individuals searching for the burial places of their ancestors and relatives. Cemeteries and mass graves, individual interments, sometimes in non-Jewish cemeteries, is the scope of this effort. If you know of a cemetery --anywhere in the world-- that remains to be included in the IAJGS International Jewish Cemetery Project, please use the instructions below to share your information and to grow this project.

HOW TO DONATE BURIAL SITE/CEMETERY INFORMATION
       To donate information about a cemetery or burial site please click on one of the options below to get the form to fill out. Completing a survey will help you assist our goal of documenting every Jewish burial in the world. To donate photographs or other materials please fill out our donor form.

Submitting Non-Eastern European Burial SITE Information

Burial SITE Survey: English

Submitting Eastern European Burial SITE Information

East-European Burial SITE Survey: Dutch
East-European Burial SITE Survey: English
East-European Burial SITE Survey: French
East-European Burial SITE Survey: German
East-European Burial SITE Survey: Polish
East-European Burial SITE Survey: Portugese
East-European Burial SITE Survey: Romanian
East-European Burial SITE Survey: Russian
East-European Burial SITE Survey: Spanish

Click on the survey that best suits you. If possible, submission in English is preferred.


     Expansion of this project relies on contributions of information by cemeteries, funeral homes, synagogues, and individual researchers. Contributions of cemetery survey forms advance the wealth of knowledge of this project and allow families throughout the world to access their heritage and to honor their ancestors. Several available forms can assist with data collection for burial site identification. When you visit or pass your local Jewish cemetery, burial site or synagogue, please drop the Cemetery Survey at the office and arrange a date at which you can retrieve it to submit to the IAJGS International Jewish Cemetery Project. If you know of an abandoned cemetery not already listed in the Burial Site Descriptions, please let us know about it or contribute with your own DOCUMENTATION DAY FOR A CEMETERY, a section that includes How to Read a Jewish Tombstone.
     We appreciate the assistance of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Monuments Abroad, concentrating on Eastern Europe. They contribute information to the project from thousands of Jewish cemeteries and mass graves in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine. For some sites, only the location is known. For others, the rich detail fills the citation.

HOW TO DONATE LISTS OF BURIALS:
Online Worldwide Burial Registry JOWBR (Former Phases 2 & 3) database identifies individual Jewish interments in cemeteries or other burial sites. Instructions for donations of burial listings and searches for burial citations are available at JOWBR.Computerized databases are the principal sources of burial information found in the JOWBR. Secondary sources include computerized data files created by International Jewish Cemetery Project volunteers from cemetery ledgers, card indexes or maps. For older cemeteries, individual researchers often photograph gravestones and transcribe the information. Photographs from burial sites can be linked to data in the Burial Site Documentation and/or the JOWBR. To submit photographs, maps, or other burial site information to IAJGS, please use the Donor Form.

International Jewish Cemetery Project's Importance to ALL

All individuals involved in the creation of this project are volunteers.
The right to make one copy for personal use with full citation is hereby granted;
however, no profit is to be made from the use of this website's information.
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No reply will be made to inquiries about specific burials. All information that we possess is on the website. We have no other information so please do not write requesting any on either burial sites or individual burials.
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