This site was built under a pilot project designed to set an example on how Jewish heritage could be saved and preserved in areas where there are no Jews left. The project’s aim was to save the Jewish cemeteries in Targu Frumos and Podu Iloaiei, which were derelict although they were the resting place of victims of the Romanian Holocaust, by determining the local population, but also authorities, NGOs, action groups and schools, to get involved in their preservation.
You can find here the project’s evolution in images.

1.The cemeteries in Podu Iloaiei and Targu Frumos in May 2006 (before the project started)

Podu Iloaiei

Targu Frumos

2.The cemeteries in Podu Iloaiei and Targu Frumos in June 2006 (cleaned during the project implementation) commemoration of the victims of the Iassy pogrom of June 1941 by the local authorities (mayoralties and councils)

Podu Iloaiei

Targu Frumos

3.The workshops designed to teach local actors how to write projects in view of maintaining the cemeteries in good conditions once the project is over and how to network with other communities with similar preoccupations, in October 2006

4.The cemeteries in Podu Iloaiei and Targu Frumos on October 9, 2006 – commemoration of the death trains victims by the local schools

Podu Iloaiei

Targu Frumos

5.Rehabilitation of the cemeteries in Podu Iloaiei and Targu Frumos in cooperation with the Federation of the Jewish Communities in Romania, their legal owner

Podu Iloaiei

Targu Frumos

6.Press cuts and interviews on the project’s evolution

June 2006
July-August 2006