Het "Stenenarchief"
The Israeli organization Akevoth (specialized in Dutch-Jewish genealogy)
and the Nederlands-Israelitisch Kerkgenootschap (Organization of Jewish
Communities in the Netherlands) launched a new website:
www.stenenarchief.org on
January 24th.
This website is aimed at visualizing all still existing Jewish
gravestones in the Netherlands.
Photographed gravestones with accompanying data of the first eighteen Jewish cemeteries can now be viewed online on www.stenenarchief.org. The Hebrew text and transcription from Hebrew to Dutch, as well as the Dutch texts on the gravestones are shown alongside each photograph.
The photographs have a blind stamp with the logos of the
Nederlands-Israelitisch Kerkgenootschap and Akevoth.
Volunteers have completely worked out the data and a fully new program
has been developed to display the implemented data in an easy and
user-friendly manner.
Besides the mentioned reproduction of text and translations, the
personal details of the deceased as they figure on the stone are
embodied in a database with search function.
www.stenenarchief.org forms
an addition to burial registers, serves as a recovery of lost burial
registers and, generally, the particular purpose is foremost the
preservation of the "stones archive" for the generations to come.
Moreover, many descendants, or persons related in another manner to the
deceased do not live in the
Netherlands anymore, or for other reasons, are unable to perform regular
visits to the graves. In addition the data of the gravestones are also
highly
Meanwhile also a digital database of photographs of around 100
cemeteries has been built up and will be further expanded by the
volunteers.
Unique in this database is that, through special research, a link will
also be established to show genealogical and historical data pertaining
to the deceased, wherever and to the extent possible. The digital
database where the stones are processed is not accessible. However, in
their finished form the data will be published rubricated per cemetery,
during the coming years that this project will require, and will become
available for the interested Internet public drop by drop. The data of
the first eighteen cemeteries are now online.
For more information:
Nederlands-Israelitisch Kerkgenootschap
Ruben Vis, secretary
Tel: + 31 (0) 20 301 8484
***
Amoetat Akevoth
Reinier Bobbe, coordinator for the Netherlands
Tel: + 31 (0) 20 600 3026
***
Ben Noach, coordinator for Israel
Tel: + 972 (0) 3 631 3615
