Achab Haider's anxious question (19 and 20th June - "Please help") about tombstone movement has implications for simple genealogical identification and opens up a concern which surely requires further exploration. Jewish cemetery restoration, partial or otherwise in post-Holocaust Europe, is a common occurrence. I know of at least one instance in Bohemia where several tombstones >from a cemetery were removed for display elsewhere. This must occur frequently where tombstones are found in extremely derelict conditions or the actual grave site cannot be determined because of vandalism entailing movement of the tombstone. At any rate, documentation of a correlation between a tombstone marker and the actual grave is a helpful tool in identifying family plots. Achab is doing holy work in documenting Jewish cemeteries. The circumstances under which tombstones are knowingly standing in locations which are not the actual gravesite should be of interest to genealogists.
