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Heritage Abroad. In just its first year of operations in Ukraine, Lo Tishkach identified 10
previously unknown burial sites in the Kyiv region and another 35 in the Cherkassy
region, Ms. Yanover said.
Lo Tishkach expedition groups may be Hillel students, groups of other young people
interested in history, or foreign Jewish young people desiring to explore historic Ukraine.
Recruiting seminars, said Ms. Yanover, are held throughout the year in different
Ukrainian cities. Recent seminars have been held, she continued, in Kyiv, the
Carpathian Mountain area (known as Zakarpatiya or Transcarpathia), Liviv, Crimea, and
Kharkiv. All relevant Jewish community groups are notified in advance of the seminar
so that potentially interested students and young adults will attend. The goal is to
recruit attendees to expeditions, preferably in their own regions so as to strengthen a
sense of Jewish community and continuity. Participants are asked to propose their own
projects within local areas, that is, decide which burial grounds to clean, whether to
focus on monument development or fence construction, or other matters. Local rabbis
are invited to explain all relevant Jewish laws regarding burials and related topics.
Many expeditions are scheduled for university vacation periods in order encourage
student participation.
Information about Jewish burial sites and
locations of mass slaughters during the
Holocaust is published by Lo Tishkach in a
series of books, such as the 106-page
catalogue on Jewish burial grounds in the Kyiv
region. Similar volumes exist about Jewish
burial grounds in other regions of Ukraine.
The Jewish burial grounds depicted on the
cover of the Kyiv region catalogue are
(clockwise from top): Skvyra Jewish Cemetery
II, Kyiv Jewish Cemetery IV (Kurenivske),
Dymer Mass Grave, Borodianka Jewish
Cemetery, Bila Tserkva Jewish Cemetery II
(Kyivska), and Makariv Mass Grave (memorial
monument).