Brody Cemetery Project Ami Elyasaf, Pamela Weisberger Project
Committee Members Jan Meisels Allen, Heidi Urich, Benjamin
Solomowitz The approximately 5,000 tombstones in the Brody,
Ukraine cemetery will be photographed and mapped by a team of
Lviv, Ukraine-based specialists in cemetery documentation and
photography. The inscriptions will be translated and the data
entered into the template for JewishGen's Online Worldwide
Burial Registry (JOWBR). The images and inscriptions will be
provided to JewishGen and Gesher Galicia so that researchers can
obtain the information free of charge on JOWBR or the GG
website. This project will allow Galician family history
researchers to create or fill gaps in their family trees and
learn something about their families' Jewish heritage. Where
vital records may no longer exist, cemetery records are often
the only remaining evidence of a person's life. The material has
the potential to be of broader interest to scholars and
educators specializing in Jewish history and the Holo