GRAVESITE
RESCUE.org
THE PROJECT
PHOTOGRAPH
MAP AND ORGANIZE
MORE THAN 7,000 GRAVESITES
IN BOBRUISK, BELARUS
THE PROJECT
Our mission is to prove that using social media and other sources we can raise awareness and locate family members of many abandoned gravesites to offer them a dependable non-for profit option for gravesite care. We decided to test this theory in the town of Bobruisk, Belaruis. We hope that with strong roots in America and a long Jewish history, the Jewish cemetery in Bobruisk will be the first of many where identified living relatives will agree to pay for well organized, ongoing gravesite care . In September 2018 we commissioned to have each tombstone photographed, numbered and mapped. Once this part of the project is fully funded and complete, we will use our data to help locate living relatives in an effort to align them with our mission. If you know some one with Jewish roots in Bobruisk please forward, copy and share our site and all its contents and help us identify and locate known relatives or friends.
Tombstone pictures babruisk
Tombstone pictures babruisk
FEW WILL HAVE AN ONGOING FAMILY INTEREST IN KEEPING UP THAT CARE ONCE THEY ARE GONE.
100% OF RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS HAVE FAMILY BURIED IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.
MOST DON'T HAVE DEPENDABLE ARRANGEMENTS FOR GRAVESITE CARE.
Many of us are fortunate enough to live in a country with an organized system for gravesite care. We can simply make a payment to a trusted local institution or business and know that proper care will be given during our lifetime and beyond. We were surprised to find that there aren't any known American organizations tasked with that same important responsibly for our loved ones resting overseas. Some of us have hired former neighbors or family acquaintances to look after and protect those gravesites temporarily. Unfortunately most Jewish gravesites are subject to vandalism and go completely uncared for.