We have a new Have Your Say personal essay up — this one by Alena Kuliounich, director of the Hillel Jewish Students Cultural Center in Minsk in Minsk, Belarus.
For the past seven years, Minsk Hillel has carried out a youth volunteer project to recover, maintain, and restore Jewish cemeteries in Belarus.
In her essay, Kuliounich describes the unique initiative, part of Hillel’s MEGA — Memory Education Generation Activity – project, implemented with the support of Genesis Philanthropy Group, Hillel International, Hillel CASE, Shalom Corps, and the US Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad.