וויטעבסק — בית החיים

Vitebsk — the Jewish cemetery

Vitebsk · וויטעבסק

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Jewish cemetery, Vitebsk, Vitebsk Region, Belarus

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1.IT IS BIG AND IT IS IN THREE PARTS — around six thousand three hundred kevorim, split into three sections of roughly two and a half, two and a half, and one and a half thousand. Know which section before you start walking.
2.THE OLDER GRAVES ARE ON THE RIGHT OF THE CENTRE, and many of them were moved here from other grounds around the city. The kevorim on the left are from before the revolution and between the wars, and a great many of those need restoring rather than merely finding.
3.EIGHTY-ONE YEARS WITH NOBODY WATCHING. From 1918 until 1999 the cemetery had no security at all, and most of the pre-revolutionary matzevos were broken up or taken — the granite and marble ones went into the insides of buildings. The fence and gate were rebuilt between 1993 and 1997.
4.The third section was used in secret from the nineteen-sixties on, during the years when burying here was forbidden. Kevorim from that period are not where the records would put them.
5.The Vitebsk Foundation, at the museum on Gogol street, house 17, flat 24, is the address that holds more than the surveys do.

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Closest airports

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Minsk (MSQ)Minsk National· 202 km · 126 mi straight-line· regional
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Vilnius (VNO)Vilnius International· 320 km · 199 mi straight-line· regional
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Kaunas (KUN)Kaunas International· 390 km · 243 mi straight-line· regional
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