(JHE) — In 2024, the Tachov Archives and Museum Society (TAMUS), a Czech non-profit NGO deeply involved in documenting and preserving Jewish cemeteries and other sites, carried out detailed photo documentation and mapping of 10 Czech Jewish cemeteries.
In its Annual Report for 2024, TAMUS also highlighted other activities in various towns and cities, including numerous public lectures on Jewish cemeteries, publications, and educational work.
It said detailed photographic documentation and mapping update was completed in the Jewish cemeteries in Bosyně (64 gravestones, the oldest from 1801), Budyně nad Ohří (306 gravestones,, the oldest from 1764), Brandýs nad Labem (918 gravestones, the oldest from 1572), Jiřice (106 gravestones, then oldest from 1698), Kostelec nad Labem (173 gravestones, the oldest one from 1814, Postřižín (269 gravestones, the oldest from 1833), Spomyšl (303 gravestones, the oldest from 1720), Hostomice pod Brdy / Běštín (159 gravestones, the oldest from 1837), Hořepník (253 gravestones, the oldest from 1661), and Česká Lípa (159 gravestones, the oldest from 1677).
It also documented the Jewish cemetery in Suchomasty, which was founded as a plague cemetery. TAMUS said “It was in use probably only in the 18th century. Only parts of three gravestones have been preserved, one of which was found in the cemetery area in the forest and dates from 1737.”
TAMUS was established in 2015 and, the report stated, as of 2024 had made detailed documentation of nearly half of the Jewish cemeteries in the Czech Republic.
In addition to documentation, it has installed information panels and QR codes at several cemeteries and in seven cemeteries it placed a metal box with a guest book where visitors can leave comments. The Annual report said that in 2024 there had been “great response” to this initiative.
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