INTRODUCTION

 

Step 1: Raise funds.

Step 2: Locate the remaining headstones in the vast area where they are scattered.

Step 3: Hire local people to locate stones, and retrieve them from public areas.

Step 4: Buy headstones that local people claim as their property. Hire truck to relocate to safe location.

Step 5: Keep headstones in a temporary place until the Chinese Authorities provide permanent place, or send them to the Buddhist cemetery when conditions permit.

Step 6: Document every stone and name into file, with picture and video.

Step 7: Clean, Restore and treat the stones. Take more pictures.

Step 8: Build website with pictures and stories of each of the headstones, and personal stories of those people buried.

Step 9: Publish a book (optional) with pictures and stories of each of the headstones, and personal stories of those people buried. The book will allow those who come to Shanghai to visit the graves to have a set of memories in hand.

Step 10: Complete documentary “Search and Restoration of the Jewish Graves of Shanghai” (still in process of following the story). The documentary will help bring this unique historical story and research to a broad audience via international television broadcast.
* The Film Rights will be of Dvir Bar-Gal , with acknowledgments to the project supporters.

Step 11: Display :

Option 1 – Commemorative ceremony for graves – opening of the New Jewish Cemetery of Shanghai (possibly located in a section of the Shanghai Buddhist Cemetery).

Option 2 – Finding location in Shanghai ( such a warehouse ) best in the old Jewish Ghetto area were many tourists visit. If needed renting a place and displaying the stones and other pictures and information about the search. One preferred option for that is displaying the stones in the inner yard of Ohel Moshe The old Ghetto Synagogue that is now a Jewish Museum.
* Display options maybe subject to the support or permit of the Shanghai authorities.

 
 
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