Sociedad Argentina de Genealogia Judia
Paul Armony, President
Juana Azurduy 2223,
P. 8, (1429)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
E-mail: genarg@infovia.com.ar
Website: http://www.agja.org.ar/ (in Spanish and under construction as of Oct 2005)

According to Paul Armony, genarg@infovia.com.ar, Asociación de Genealogía Judía de Argentina http://www.agja.org.ar, photographing anything in any Argentinean cemetery (Jewish or otherwise) requires government authorization. Shortly after the dissolution of the Buenos Aires Kehila AMIA in 1994, the Ministry of Security forbade photographing any Jewish building, inside or outside, without authorization. Their JGS received pictures of Cemetery Cazes in Entre Rios (about 200 burials) because of an agreement to give a copy to the authorities of the digitalized list created from the photos.

See Buenos Aires for cemetery death index information.

Latin American Jewish Congress
Casilla de Correo 20,
Suc.53, (Larrea 744),
1453 Buenos Aires
Tel. 54 1 962 5028/ 961 4534,
Fax 54 1 963 7056

(YIVO): IWO Instituto Judío de Investígaciones.
Delegacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA),
Ayacucho 632,
6 Piso,
1026 Buenos Aires,
Tel. 54 1 375 4747/ 375 4730/ 375 4742,
Fax 54 1 375 4742.
[December 2000]

• Also see: Cariolo, Signwald. Colonia Mauricio, 100 anos. La publicacion official de la Comision Centenario de la Colonoizacion Judia en Colonia Mauricio, Carlos Casares, 1991. Jews from Moctezuma, 15 km away, may be buried here. [December 2003]

• 7 Cementerio de Avigdor: The cemetery opened in 1937. The first burial (1938) was 12 year-old Irene Lang. The first row of graves face west. The remainder of the 150 graves face Jerusalem. Inscriptions are in Hebrew/Yiddish and Spanish. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita de la Colonia No. 1: Located ten km from Basavilvaso downtown on the route to Villa Dominguez, the cemetery is open 6:30 a.m. to sundown. Tel (03445) 481908. Keeper is Hugo Arcusin, who lives a few meters from the cemetery. If closed, contact Asociacion Israelita de Basavilbaso. Eight hectares in size, the cemetery dates from 1895. The donors of the land were the childless couple, Fridel and Pola Jasovich. Holocaust memorial is on site. Some graves have metal ornaments and photographs. Some graves (left of entry) are sheet-metal semi-tubular shapes. In other cemeteries, the original sheet-metal graves were replaced with brick-and-cement grave coverings. Because their roots were disturbing graves, a long row of eucalyptus trees were cut down. One grave of a family murdered during a robbery is worth noting. Buried here also is Leon Hugo Borodovsky called "Sito", a Jewish gaucho, and his father Salomon, who sang for Evita Peron. [December 2003]
• El Cementerio Israelita de la Colonia No. 3: On route to Villa Mantero, 5 kilometers after the first cemetery. Keeper is Hugo Arcusin. AMIA office at Basavilbaso can help with access. Rain prevents access to the site in the middle of the farm, originally the Akerman 1 Colony. The four-hectare cemetery contains few graves. Some of the plain gravestones are illegible. The oldest stone dates from 5 December 1889 (Isaac S. Benchetrir). The graves are those of area farmers. [December 2003]

• El Cementerio del Lote 12: Six km from Bernasconi. Go south to 2nd Street and west at the first crossroads. Over 1 hectare with over 400 graves, the well-kept cemetery is still active. A monument to the 50th anniversary of Colony Narcisse Leven separates the men and women's sections. About thirty graves are at the back, children and babies divided by gender. A Holocaust Memorial also exists. The oldest grave dates from 1909. Darragueyra, 70 km from Bernasconi, and Arauz also used this cemetery. The last burials were in the 1990s. [December 2003]
• El Cementerio de Lote 22: 40 km from Bernasconi going south on 2nd Street. Mario Korsunsky (02925) 4-99215, Sebastian Glembotsky 4-00278, or Else Ludman 4-99359 will lead visitors to the almost impossible to find cemetery without a sign. This first Jewish cemetery in La Pampa Province is now inactive with only twelve tombstones remaining and riddled with vizcacha burrows. A gate held closed by a piece of wire is the entry. [December 2003]
  

UPDATE: "AMIA, Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, has placed a death index for Buenos Aires cemeteries at their website www.amia.org.ar/difuntos.asp. The information provided is name, date of death, cemetery where the person is buried and information that gives the exact location within the cemetery. In the case of married women, the maiden name is given also. The site is in Spanish but the search engine is quite simple. The title of the page is Busqueda de difuntos (Search for Deceased); the first entry is Ingrese el apellido (Insert last name); the second entry is Elija el cementerio (Choose the cemetery-normally leave this blank)." Source: Nu? What's New? - Vol. 5, No. 11, avotaynu.com [June 2004]

• La Tablada Cemetery: Avenida Crovara 2824, 1766 La Tablada; Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Largest Jewish cemetery in South America. A memorial monument for the 86 killed and 300 wounded in the bombing on July 18, 1994 was unveiled on July 16, 1995. La Tablada, which covers 138 acres and has 70,000 graves, is the largest Jewish cemetery in the country. With Latin America's largest Jewish population, Argentina has 230,000 people who identify themselves as Jews. Tablada has computerized records. Source Hector Mondrik; e-mail: hmondrik@cponline.org.ar.
       "Bronze objects were stolen from more than 150 graves of Tablada. Jewish leaders said that the extensive damage at La Tablada had led them to conclude that the desecration was the work of a well-organized group and not a 'marginal gang,'' as some government officials had said." Source: 1997 Latino Link Enterprises, Inc.: latino@latinolink.com. Source: Washington Jewish Week, July 10, 1995 article by Segio Kiernan, Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
       1996 New York Times News Service by Calvin Sims; Oct. 21, 1996: "A major Jewish cemetery was desecrated over the weekend, the third such attack in Argentina this year, raising fear among Jews and anger that the government seems to be doing little to stop the anti-Semitic assaults." La Tablada cemetery vandalism:
  
• Liniers Cemetery: the old Jewish cemetery with a preburial house.
  http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw97-8/argentina.html. "Thirty-five graves were vandalized on the night of December 24 in the La Tablada cemetery, and 19 in the Liniers cemetery on the night of December 31. The DAIA leadership suspected local Buenos Aires policemen who had been discharged from the force with its reform following revelations of police corruption."
• Avellaneda Cemetery:  the plot for the "Zwi Migdal" in Avellaneda is reported to be semi-destroyed. [October 2003]  The Zvi Migdal was an organized crime organization in Argentina in the early 20th century.  This cemetery plot was for the women who were lured from central Europe and forced into prostitution.
  

• El Cementerio Israelita de Carmel: Jaime Tomas Jruz holds the keys (03455) 492031. Daniel Teveles in Villaguay, teveles@clavis.com.ar can provide information. A brick wall painted white surrounds the cemetery. The entrance is a tall door, solid at the bottom with decorative arches at the top. To either side of the gate are columns with a Mogen David. Behind the gate is a white building with a Mogen David. The grass is well tended. The cemetery dates from 1898. All graves face east. Men are buried on the right, women on the right. The right section holds pioneer graves. Moises Jaimovich donated the land. Some graves have photos and decorative metal elements. The oldest grave, a small white obelisk, is that of Mauricio Mizrahi (1899-1900.) A long grave holds three members of the Efron family. A romantic story is attached to one grave with a stone bench. [December 2003]

• El Cementerio Judio: The one-hectare cemetery entrance has yellow columns. A low white wall and a door with a Mogen David. The site adjoins the Catholic cemetery. Tombstones are of carved wood (1930s), cement, and granite (newer graves). A Mogen David-shaped flowerbed is the Holocaust memorial. Jews from La Marina, La Criolla and La Elsa may have used this cemetery. Spring and autumn are the best time to visit due to pleasant temperatures. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita: On Provincial Route 94 between Guemes Road and Avenida de Los Agricultures, the cemetery is always open. Begun in the 1920s, a 40 cm wall separates it from the Christian cemetery. Surrounded by a black railing and white Mogen David, six rows contain 107 graves with the oldest in the first row. The oldest are cement and brick raised structures with headstones at the end. Most inscriptions have eroded. Las Brenas and Saba Sylvina used this cemetery that was vandalized in 2000. [December 2003]
  

• Colinas del Tiempo (Hills of the Time): Panamericana Highway, 45 km from Pilar. Office: Davida 1050 Bs. As. phone 345 4001. "The newspaper announce today first Jewish park cemetery, now in the North Zone the only Jewish memorial park, with all respect for tradition and roots. As you can see, cemeteries in Argentina could be a hard work." [6/18/1996] http://www.agja.com.ar/revista/sumario_toldot_10.htm [in Spanish]

• El Cementerio Israelita de Colonia Dora: 1 km from the train station on Maipz Street behind the city cemetery, Isaac Firman has information (03844) 481-029. The cemetery dates from 1910. The iron gate has a white and yellow Mogen David and no sign. Gravestones can only be dated from 1930s but older burials exist near the main entry with newer burials near the back entry. Two obelisks exist, one that of Rabbi Samuel Berco. The last burial was Moisis Saslaver (January 1990) from Aqatuya. [December 2003]
  
• COLONIA ESPlNDOLA: also see Villa Clara Created together with Bilez in the late 1880s, the colony was abandoned in the 1940s. This farming training site for settlers had a synagogue and library, but only the abandoned cemetery remains.
• El cementerio Israelita abandonado: On the gravel Provincial Route 130 going south from Villa Clara, turn left at the first intersection to a side road. The cemetery is near the first windmill and 300 meters left of the road in a stand of mulberry trees. Public School No. 93 is 100 km from the cemetery that contains thirty memorial markers. The cemetery functioned between 1892 and 1940. Amid wet rice fields until 1999, cattle growing replaced rice in 2000. The weakening iron gate has an unlocked lock. Paths exist but weeds are very tall. Men are buried toward the front, women to the back. Weeds separate the cemetery from the road. Heavy vegetation is destroying the gravestones that are broken or eroding due to weather. Inscriptions are difficult to read. Some are sheet metal with Hebrew inscriptions. People trying to get honey from beehives in the cemetery may have damaged the graves. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita: On Villaguay Street between Las Heras and Priovano Streets, next to the British and city cemeteries, the cemetery dates from 1915. The metal entry gate inside stone columns has a door with decorative arch above that holds the words "Cementerio Israelita," and a Mogen David at the top. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita: At the end of Mendoza Street, turn left to the end. The 0.5 hectar site holds 400 graves. The cemetery abuts the penitentiary and the Christian cemetery from which it is separated by a chainlink fence. Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 12 PM and 3-7 p.m. Door unlocked except Friday afternoon and Saturday. This cemetery (in a common grave) holds reinternments from Colonia Rusa after the "great flood, 17 July 1949." A Holocaust monument and one to the colony's 1901 first settlers, Sepiurka and Zilvestein, buried in Tablada. The oldest gravestones are brick and cement with Yiddish inscriptions. Jews from Zapala, Cultral-Cs, Cipolletti, and Allen also used this cemetery whose records and map are held by the Jewish community of General Roca.[December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita de General San Martin: From the town entrance, cemetery is 3.5 km down the road. Caretaker: Fermon Aglero. Key holder is Manuel Galinsky at (02925) 4-97369. The first burial was in January 26, 1903, the "doctor" Sunde Itzcovich, a registered pharmacist. The entrance is a green gate with two Mogen David. To the side of the entrance is a small preburial room with an iron door. Men and women are buried in separate sections: five for men and three for women and a common grave 4 x 4 m for children, who died in an epidemic. Inscriptions are in Hebrew and Spanish. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita de Colonia Lopez: On El Camino Real coming from San Salvador and 7.5 km to the right on Route 18. Caretaker: Schmukler Family, (0245) 491-0155 and Pascual Rivelis (0345) 491-0201. The entry is a heavy gate that is difficult to open. A small cement building holds cemetery tools. An inscription on the door mentions the 1917 founding of the cemetery, but burials date from 1911. The property still belongs to the JCA. The grass is a little overgrown and seems a bit neglected. The Canada Grande River floods the area. The burial book has been lost. Maria Olga Nikel wrote a history: Colonia Lopez y su Escuala. The earliest graves were all men. Women are buried to the right with the babies. The last burial was Rosita S. de Presman in 1977. The graves have large above ground structures, some elaborate. Spring is the best time to visit as the fields are the driest. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita de Midanos: Located across from the City Hospital, 2.5 km from the Main Palza on Ombucta's Road. Contact Moises Guerstein, Telephone (02927) 432330. All Jewish families in Medanos have a key. The first burial was between 1904 and 1905. The 3-hectare plot entrance has two pine trees and four rose bushes next to decorative brick columns and a gate with a door and a Mogen David atop. Some individual cement mausoleums are lined up, looking like barrels with rounded or pointed tombstones at one end. A walled room holds the antique black carriage hearse with Mogen David atop. A small path between buses leads to all corners. On the left were suicides or deaths due to accidents but the practice stops many years ago. Site has a Holocaust memorial. [December 2003] Also see BAHIA BLANCA
  

• El Cementerio: The oldest Jewish cemetery in Argentina, the site dates from 8 January 1891 and has thirteen sections and 2,379 graves. Located one km east of town on a gravel road, the caretaker is Shosho Quiroga. Open M-Th from 7 to 11 a.m. and 4-6:30 p.m. Friday and Sunday mornings. Closed Saturday. For permission to visit call Jewish Mutual Association at (03409) 420-031. The alphabetical burial books are found in a small room near the entrance. The first registry is kept in the Jewish Community office. Some graves are illegible. A 1992 tornado destroyed some of the oldest graves. Some stones are U-shaped, some tubular, and some columns from the 1920s and 30s. Inscriptions are in Hebrew and Yiddish. Some have portraits on stones. The horse-drawn burial cart (used until 1979) exists. Memorial monuments include Holocaust monument, memorial to the children who died in an 1889 epidemic in Palacios, and victims of the Israeli (1992) and AMIA (1994) Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires. The Jews of San Cristsbal used this cemetery. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita de Monigotes: Dating from 1933, the 200 graves exist on 0.5 hectares. The gravestones have Hebrew inscriptions on one side and Spanish on the other. The entrance has a double iron gate topped with two Mogen David and a door that opens set between two white pillars. A shed to the left of the entrance holds the horse-drawn burial cart with a wooden dome and a Mogen David and glass windows. The Jews of San Cristsbal used this cemetery. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita: Three km from town on National Route 95. The never locked cemetery has only five rows of graves. The site is well tended with an iron door with a Mogen David. The barrel-shaped cement graves are the oldest and belong to the 1914 flood victims. Ricardo Colombo at City Hall has information: (0349) 485-009  Electricity and telephones arrived only in 1990. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio de Palacios: At the railroad track, turn left for 300 meters. Cross the tracks and continue parallel to the tracks for another 600 meters. Closed Saturdays and Jewish holidays. Abraham "Bucho" Bernstein (03409) 492-030 or City Hall can assist with visiting. A small white Mogen David on an iron rail leads to the one-hectare cemetery. About 300 graves are found in the one or three hectares of tall grass, of which only about 10%-25% is used. Almost all inscriptions are in Yiddish. Kids with air rifles damaged some headstones in the 1990s. Suicides are buried separately. A separate section marks Yellow Fever victims of 1918 and 1920. Another section is holds the graves of children. Jews of Zadoc Kahn also used this cemetery, 10 km away. The oldest graves date from 1913 (Rose K. de Hilbert) and 1919 (Moisis Winocur) [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita de Pedernal: Located 2 km from Pedernal on the way to Concordia on National Route 14. To visit the one-hectare cemetery, contact Adolfo Gorskin, (0345) 421-457. The property originally belonged to Isaac Blinder and can be seen from the road. A sign reads: "Prohibita la entrada sin permiso. Pedir las llaves al senor Posternak, en Pederal. La Comision." A marble Holocaust memorial exists. A commission to maintain the cemetery was organized in 2000. Three suicides are buried separately in an area of high grasses. Burial records that survived floods and loss (1942-1962) are kept at the Montefiore City Hall [December 2003]
  

• Article: Garber, Jacobo. "La Presencia Judia en el camp chaqueno y su aporte a la grandeza de la provincia." El Interior, 14 July 1999. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Judio: Take 12th Street (San Martin Street) to the pavement end. Continue on dirt road past the adjacent Juan XXIII City Cemetery. Ricardo Mendelshon holds the keys. Benjamin Levit has an alphabetical list of burials. Tel: (03732) 420-390. The entry has a Mogen David and blue and white doors in the wall. The cemetery dates from 1920. The 120 graves are burial sites for people from the following towns: Quitilip, Avia Terai, Juan Jose Castelli, Pampa del Infierno, Concepcion del Bermejo, Machagai, and Tres Iseltas. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita de Pueblo Cazis: 4.5 km past "Cuartro Bocas" Road across the Main Road to Hambis. Key holder: "Casa Combet". 1 km on the right side of the cemetery entrance. Call ahead to Centro Social Israelita Argentino, Concepcion del Urugay, (03442) 422-959. Entrance is a white cement arch with a Mogen David on either side with a double iron door. 150 graves (men right, women left) are amid a flower-lined path. Monument to pioneers: Kolker, Menqui, Braun. Inscriptions are in Hebrew and Spanish and mostly legible. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita de Rivera: Five kilometers from River on the road going south that goes to Huergo Railroad Station (parallel to the train tracks.) Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Saturday. Contact: Gustavo Elman (02935-4-32754) and Abraham Sigal (02935-4-32004) have the cemetery keys and all graves listings. 1,600 graves are found over 4.5 hectares surrounded by a brick wall and a lighted entrance gate with a decorative iron fence. A Hebrew inscription is over the gate on the brick arch. The first burial was in 1915 (settler Arieh Reshtilovsky.) Cemetery contains a WWII memorial. The oldest graves are the first four rows. One section in the center of the cemetery is for child victims of a 1907 typhus and scarlet fever epidemic. The section has a large menorah marker. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita de San Gregorio or La Recoleta de la Colonia Clara: Located on Provincial Route 20 from Villa Dominguez to Basavilbase. At the sign "El Aljibe" [The Well] turn right. A few meters further, a gravel road to the right leads to the cemetery open Friday and Sunday from sunup to 6 p.m. Key holder is Leon Salzman in Villa Dominguez (03455) 492043. Buried there are the following: Noe YARCHO, first physician to arrive in Argentina via JCA; Miguel SAJAROFF, Leon GURCHUNOFF, Gregorio SEGAL, BLACKIE family. A common grave from 1894 holds fifty people, who died from typhus from immigrants on the "Orione." Keeper of the cemetery for twenty years is Jose Feliciano Espinoza, who washes gravestones, plants flowers and prunes trees. He knows the location of every grave. The synagogue, 1 km away, is visible from the cemetery. [December 2003]

• El Cementerio Israelita de San Salvador: Located on Avenida de la Paz (gravel road) and Avenida de los Rusos. Caretaker is Julio Mindez. The following have the key: Oscar Loskin (0345) 491-0302, Rivelos Family (0345) 491-0201, and Elias Mendelovich (0345) 491-0336. The cemetery opened officially in 1936, but some graves predate that founding. Jews from San Salvador were buried in Lopez and Berro until this cemetery opened. The cemetery entrance is a black iron door with two Mogen David in an arched gate topped with a Mogen David, "1934", and a sign in Hebrew and Spanish reading: "Cementerio Israelita." Within the cemetery is a caretaker building, a preburial room with a sign reading, "Board of Directors. 1995: Bernardo Grimberg, Adolfo Stubbing, Lesn Monastersky, Moisis Hornes, B. Pochter, and H. Furman. A low rectangular pyramid is the Holocaust Memorial. Separate section for men is to the right of the entry. The well-kept cemetery filled with calandria (a kind of lark) is ten blocks from downtown. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerios Israelia de las Colonias Domingo Calvo y Baron Guinsburg: On Provincial Route 18 from Parana to Concordia is a large arch indicating the still-active cemetery, 8 km from Villa Clara, before Jubileo. 32 km from Villaguay, 44 km from Villa Dominguez, 59 km from San Gregorio, 23 km from Ingeniero Sajaroff, 27 km from Carmel, and 72 km from Basavilbaso. Keys: Abraham Kreiserman, tel (03455) 491014. Entry to the bucolic site is through two ranch gates and then an iron bar gate with a Mogen David attached to a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire and attached to a caretaker house. Graves date from the 1910s. No separate sections. Common graves exist for the 1913 and 1916 typhus epidemics. Memorial markers are flat stones, obelisks, and multistone monuments of marble and other stone. Some have photographs. Inscriptions are mostly in Hebrew or Yiddish. The burial book is in the possession of Zulema Danses de Fink of Villa Clara. 126 men and 86 women and one with only a surname. Two burials occurred in 2000. Very little space for additional burials exists. [December 2003]

• Cemetery: The cemetery is located on Malvinas Argentina Avenue, next to the municipal cemetery. Opened in 1953 on land donated by Governor Carlos Arturo Juarez, the carob tree filled cemetery contains 180 graves with Gothic lettered inscriptions. [December 2003]
  

• Cementerio Israelita de Ubajay: On the gravel Road to San Salvador to the fork, then on the left road for 1.5 km, Jaime Hejt has the keys (0345) 490-5031. Set in a large open field at the top of a hill with a row of palm trees on either side is a decorative metal fence with a Mogen David set in a wire and post fence. At the entry of the cemetery is a double cast iron gate with a Mogen David. A little building with a door, window, and Mogen David is just beyond the gate. Founded in 1917 at the death of a three month-old girl, three rows of women's grave are on the left and six rows of men on the left, totally about one hundred graves with Hebrew inscriptions, some illegible. Graves were repaired in the 1980s in the still active (occasionally) cemetery. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita de Alcaraz: Located 10 km from the town on a dirt road, contact Ruben "Bocha" Berman 03438-494069 or Semaj Berman 03438-494037. A chain link fence with an iron Mogen David and Menorah surround the cemetery begun in 1920s. A small white preburial house and Holocaust memorial are within the site. 200 graves have women on the right and men on the left. One couple is buried together. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita: Located on Falucho Street, starting at the train station, take JB Justo Street to Lisandro de la Torre Street. At the end, turn left onto Avenida del Trabago to the intersection. Turn right for 500 meters. The key holder is Rodolfo Corzo, who lives next door to the always-locked cemetery. La Chaquena Company donated one hectare of land in 1934 for the cemetery. A Mogen David above the wooden entry door in the high wall as "1934" in the center. Prior to 1934, Villa Angela Jews used the cemeteries at Charata or Resistencia. Inscriptions are in Yiddish and Spanish. Up to 1976, the cemetery had 121 graves. One marked with two cement triangles forming a Mogen David holds the three torahs burned in the fire. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita de Clara-Bilez: From downtown, take San Martin Avenue to Yrigoyen Street to Diamante Street to the cemetery. Contact: Zulema Danses de Fink, (03455) 491223 or email her son: fink@clavis.com.ar. Graves date from 1892. The first burial was a Piamante, Italy Jewish couple, who died in a boat accident. By rumor, the still-active, but crowded, cemetery was founded by Ionte Anapolsky, who died at age 114. Some graves have sheet metal plates with inscription in Hebrew. Some gravestones are inscribed marble. Some have photographs. Cemetery contains a Holocaust memorial. [December 2003]