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Faleshti Old Jewish Cemetery

Drone survey :
Faleshti Old Jewish Cemetery

Historical map and perimeter :
Faleshti Old Jewish Cemetery

Country:

Moldova

Region:

None

District:

Faleshti

Settlement:

Faleshti

Site Address:

138, Stefan cel Mare Street (behind the hospital complex).

GPS coordinates:

47.578568, 27.704651

Perimeter length:

370 meters

Is the cemetery demolished:

Type and height of existing fence:

Type of the fence. The cemetery is surrounded by a metal fence.

General Site Condition:

Fenced and protected Jewish cemetery. The cemetery is somewhat overgrown, but is otherwise maintained by the municipality.

Number of existing gravestones:

Approximately 500

Date of Oldest Tombstone:

The earliest gravestone discovered dates to 1905

Date of Newest Tombstone:

2016

Urgency of erecting a fence:

Fence is not needed

Land Ownership:

Municipality/Property of local community

Preserved Construction on Site:

Beit-tahara.

Mass Graves on Site:

Yes. The cemetery contains a mass grave, marked with a memorial plaque.

Specific Threats:

A neighbouring restaurant is constructing a parking lot next to the cemetery.

Drone surveys:

Yes

The exact period of the cemetery’s foundation is unknown. However, it was marked on a map of the region from the 1860s. The cemetery is still in use, and was surveyed in 2015 by Yefim Kogan of JewishGen.

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