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From: Jan Meisels Allen <janmallen@att.net>
To: IAJGS Leadership Forum <leadership@iajgs.org>
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:30:28 -0800
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (European Union) Grant to European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative to Survey 1500 Jewish Cemeteries in Europe
The European Union has granted 800,000 Euros ($922,000 USD) to a project that will map and survey about 1,500 Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe. The initiative is called, the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (ESJF). The ESIF was established in 2015 with a German government grant and with that it helped 120 Jewish cemeteries in seven Central and Eastern European countries. There are over 10,000 Jewish cemeteries in Eastern and Central Europe that are in some degree of risk.
The mapping process will employ state-of-the –art technology, including engineering drones and taking photographs from the air as well as centuries-old historical records research.
To read more about the grant see: http://www.israelnationalnews.
To read more about EJCI see their website at: https://www.esjf-cemeteries.
At the time of writing this announcement there was nothing about the EU grant on the website.
Thank you to Saul Issroff for sharing the information on the EU grant with us.
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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