This news article, The Town Making the Horrifying Discovery That It's Built Out of
Jewish Tombstones, conveys
horrifying news and at the same time represents a cause for celebration.
It’s horrifying in terms of the history involved. It’s a cause for celebration as what was once thought to be lost has now been found and might be preserved for future generations.
After the war [World War II], with Brest Belarus Brest
... Fifteen hundred
headstones have been found in Brest
Tombstone removal is not new and it’s not always undesirable (e.g. 5 Reasons for Relocating an Entire Cemetery) ... think what happens when a river was dammed and/or flooded to create a large body of water (e.g. Cemeteries Relocated by TVA & Kinzua Cemetery Relocations & Falls Dam Project (NC)), or a church sold off the land where it’s graveyard once existed (e.g. The National Archives (UK), Removal of graves and tombstones), etc. Learn more by reading With Reverance and Respect – Relocating a Cemetery.
Granted, the above article is not talking about a scenario with such a mundane genesis and we don’t always find that our ancestors are where they were originally buried, or, that they were even buried (e.g., body donated for science, cremation, burial at sea, etc).
Have you heard of other
situations where, for lack of a better term, a hidden cache of previously
thought to be lost tombstones has been rediscovered?
Are you aware of other
databases (besides the TVA one) for cemeteries relocated as lakes or other
large-scale projects requiring cemeteries to be relocated were constructed?
Editor’s
Note: Thanks to Elizabeth Shown Mills for posting a link to the original
article on Facebook.
Editor’s
Note: Many cemetery relocations come about through the work of the U.S. US
Editor’s
Note: Just after this piece was written, I discovered another article, Used to rebuild Warsaw, Jewish tombstones return to cemeteries.
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