Everything in life is a rediscovery. There was once a Russian cemetary in Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian capital. Yet did it still exist? Could anything be found?
The Soviet Union had disintegrated. By the mid 1990s the Russians pulled out of Mongolia. Locals were mostly unaware of what lay over the wall they walked by each day. The graves were forgotten.
‘Yet we have found you.’
Russian: “Here has been put to rest, covered Lazar Yacov Lazarovich FINKELPEREL, Died: Jan 29, 1939, “Dear Papa”
Photo Credit: Christopher Coles, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (May 2022)
The last Jews of Ulaanbaatar: Unknown Jewish person. cement protective burial sarcophagus with Magen David (Star of David)
Photo Credit: Christopher Coles, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (May 2022)