PHOTOS BY RABBI MOSHE SILBERHAFT
Spiritual Leader
- South African Country Communities - SAJBD (South African Jewish Board of Deputies) -
You can read more about Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft by clicking HERE:
and view Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft's web site by clicking HERE:Below are some of the emails and photos concerning the Witbank
Jewish Cemetery, that
Rabbi Silberhaft has sent me, since December 2007.
I appreciate very much everything that Rabbi Silberhaft has done for
our Witbank Jewish Community.
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Dated: 12/26/2007:
Yesterday I inspected the
recently refurbished Witbank Jewish cemetery.
To prevent vandalism we have set all the headstones flat. See pictures attached.
I will now also embark on a project to erect small headstones on the unmarked
graves from the info in the death register.
Dated: 4/10/2008:
Attached please find
pictures of the recently painted walls in the Jewish cemetery.
I am in the process of making small gravestones to demarcate the 38 unmarked
graves in the cemetery.
Dated: 5/15/2008: RESTORED / UPGRADED WITBANK JEWISH CEMETERY.
Dated: 7/14/2009: FOUNDATION STONES FROM THE OLD SYNAGOGUES ERECTED IN THE CEMETERY
To view enlarged images of these stones click HERE: