New JHE Have Your Say personal essay
COVID-19 quarantine measures forced the closure of Jewish heritage sites and cancelled many volunteer Jewish cemetery clean-up actions.
Monika Tarajko, of the Grodzka Gate NN Theatre in Lublin, Poland, often volunteers with such groups.
This year was different: she used the pandemic time to work in isolation – accompanied by her father – to clear and document one Jewish cemetery, that in Józefów Biłgorajski.
To date, she writes, she and her Dad have cleaned and/or documented more than 450 matzevot.
She writes:
Working with my dad is not only measured in the time that we spend together. Rather, it’s a kind of understanding without words; help without questions from his side and joy and inexpressible gratitude from my side.
In the new Jewish Heritage Europe “Have Your Say” personal essay she recounts the experience.
Click here to read her personal essay