Source: Alon Goldman

Eighty Eitan High School students from the Israeil’s Gezer Regional Council of Israel visited our Częstochowa Jewish Cemetery. After learning a little about its history, they volunteered to help in the cemetery cleaning work.

World Society friends, Krzysztof Straus, Elżbieta Ferenc and Robert Kamela were on site to help coordinate the activity.

After about half an hour of instruction about the cemetery, the Mass Graves and the grave of those murdered in the Kielce pogrom, the students began the cleaning work and, after an hour, cut tree trunks and branches were piled up on the path, waiting to be shredded or removed. In order to maximize the effectiveness of the students’ working time, professional loggers, hired by us, went to work several days before the students arrived and cut down bushes and fallen tree trunks so that the students could focus on removing vegetation from between the rows of graves and bring them to the central pathway.