Bialystok Jewish Cemetery has been Indexed #poland
Mark Halpern
The Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland has
announced an update to the database of Polish Jewish cemetery inscriptions. which includes GPS data and transcriptions of personal data extracted directly >from the tombstones. This update includes an almost complete index of the cemetery in Bialystok (2400 inscriptions). 500 more inscriptions for Bialystok will be added to the database in Summer 2016. As you can see >from the data, there are fewer than 3,000 legible tombstones in the one remaining Jewish Cemetery in Bialystok. This represents about 6 to 8% of the number of people buried in the Cemetery from about 1890 through about 1965.Already included in this database are inscriptions for the Bialystok area towns of Bielsk Podlaski, Bransk, Choroszcz, Ciechanowiec, Drohiczyn, Goniadz, Jalowka, Jasionowka, Knyszyn, Krynki, Michalowo, Narew, Narewka, Sidra, Siemiatycze, Tykocin, Wasilkow, and Zabludow. Through collaboration with JRI-Poland, this data will be easily available to all researchers, historians and descendants of Polish Jews. See http://www.jri-poland.org/foundation-for-documentation-jewish-cemeteries.htm. Witold Wrzosinski, Remigiusz Sosnowski and Alicja Mroczkowska are the principals of the Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries. The Foundation was awarded the IAJGS Stern Grant in 2015. For direct access to the Foundation's website and database, see http://cemetery.jewish.org.pl/lang_en/ Mark Halpern
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