The Los Angeles Jewish Journal writes about a collaboration between the MACEVA project and middle school students in Lithuania and eight-graders at the Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School near Los Angeles to document and translate Jewish tombstones from the Jewish cemetery in Utena, Lithuania.
On Jan. 23, the entire eighth-grade class at Heschel filled the gym to translate the Hebrew inscribed on recently uncovered gravestones from Utena. […] In Lithuania, students went into the forests, located the gravestones, cleaned them, photographed them and uploaded the images onto MACEVA’s Web site. Heschel students then accessed the photos online and used their Hebrew skills to translate the names, dates and descriptions on the stones, which were then posted at litvak-cemetery.info.
Romy Dolgin, a student at Heschel, found that the ability to work hand-in-hand with eighth-graders across the globe was one of the most exciting things about this project. “Just knowing that right now, kids on the other side of the world are looking at these tombstones, and it’s connecting us to them, is very thrilling,” she said.
Read full story in LA Jewish Journal