2012-05-22 15:33

Jewish cemeteries in Kaunas up for a clean-up

Four Jewish cemeteries will be cleaned up in Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas this week, the municipality has said.
Žydų kapinės.
Jewish cemetery / 15min nuotr.

"We tidy Jewish cemeteries a few times a year. More efforts are required in spring and fall – we are now mowing and removing grass, trimming branches, were necessary. Every fall, we rake and remove fallen leaves," Algirdas Verbickas, director of the municipal company Kapinių Priežiūra, said in a press release.

He said the company was not authorized to tidy the burial sites, saying there had been no reproaches from the Jewish community.

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