Registration is open for volunteers to take part in the annual clean-up and restoration camp at the historic Jewish cemetery in Alba Iulia, Romania.
This year it will take place from July 4-12.
Places are limited, so register soon. Registrations close May 31.
The camp focus includes restoration and preservation of individual gravestones as well as general cleaning of the site, plus lectures and study sessions. Conservation work (cleaning and treatment of monuments) is overseen by the project manager, the stone restorer Sidonia P. Olea.
Established in the 18th century and still used by the town’s tiny Jewish community, the cemetery is believed to be the oldest Jewish cemetery in Transylvania and one of the oldest in Romania. Extending over about 21,500 square meters, it includes 2,038 graves and 1,960 stones, with inscriptions in Hebrew, Yiddish, Hungarian, German and Romanian. Erosion and neglect have take a toll.
For more information contact Sidonia Olea at +40 (0)749 977 0471
Click here for the registration form