Sociedad Argentina de Genealogia Judia
Paul Armony, President
Juana Azurduy 2223,
P. 8, (1429)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
According to Paul Armony, Asociación de Genealogía Judía de Argentina ,
photographing anything in any Argentinean cemetery (Jewish or otherwise)
requires government authorization. Shortly after the dissolution of the Buenos
Aires Kehila AMIA in 1994, the Ministry of Security forbade photographing any
Jewish building, inside or outside, without authorization. Their JGS received
pictures of Cemetery Cazes bsp; Electricity and telephones arrived only in 1990.
[December 2003]
PALACIOS: Santa Fe Province, San Cristobal department
Located in west central Santa Fe, the town is 18 km from Moises Ville, 8
km from Las Palmeras, 24 km from Monigotes, 650 miles from Buenos Aires. The
first Jewish settlers lived in a shed of the Argentine Central Railroad.
Children died from illness and malnutrition in the earliest settlement and were
buried in fuel can coffins. The train arrived in 1890. Located in Route 34, only
the main street is paved. 350 people live in the town. About six Jews remain.
El Cementerio de Palacios: At the railroad track, turn left for 300
meters. Cross the tracks and continue parallel to the tracks for another 600
meters. Closed Saturdays and Jewish holidays. Abraham "Bucho"
Bernstein (03409) 492-030 or City Hall can assist with visiting. A small
white Mogen David on an iron rail leads to the one-hectare cemetery. About
300 graves are found in the one or three hectares of tall grass, of which
only about 10%-25% is used. Almost all inscriptions are in Yiddish. Kids
with air rifles damaged some headstones in the 1990s. Suicides are buried
separately. A separate section marks Yellow Fever victims of 1918 and 1920.
Another section is holds the graves of children. Jews of Zadoc Kahn also
used this cemetery, 10 km away. The oldest graves date from 1913 (Rose K. de
Hilbert) and 1919 (Moisis Winocur) [December 2003]
PAMPA DEL INFIERNO: see PRESIDENCIA ROQUE SAENZ PENA
PARANA:
"The community center and a cemetery in the
provincial Jewish community of Parana has been attacked and desecrated. The
building was fired on and 50 gravestones at the nearby Villa Clara Jewish
cemetery were smashed and overturned." Source: Dateline World Jewry,
8/1997, World Jewish Congress.
PEDERNAL:
Formerly Colonia Santa Isabel, Pedernal in east central
Entre Rios province is 32 km SE of Concordia and 19 km NE of Ubajay, 438 from
Buenos Aires, 75 km from Harris, 69 km from Pueblo Cazes, 47 km from San
Salvador, 27 km from General Campos. In 1904, JCA bought the 12,970 hectares
Santa Isabel ranch in Concordia district between two streams, Grande and Rabon.
Fifty-one families started the colony that became a large milk-producing area,
although today it produces poultry. None of their four synagogues exists today.
The railroad arrived in 1915. The 1939 census lists 99 Jewish families in the
rural area and 62 in the town. By 2000, the very few of the 623 inhabitants are
Jewish. In 2001, telephone line installation was announced although a telephone
booth inside the general store existed since 1928.
El Cementerio Israelita de Pedernal: Located 2 km from Pedernal on
the way to Concordia on National Route 14. To visit the one-hectare
cemetery, contact Adolfo Gorskin,. The property originally belonged to Isaac
Blinder and can be seen from the road. A sign reads: "Prohibita la
entrada sin permiso. Pedir las llaves al senor Posternak, en Pederal. La
Comision." A marble Holocaust memorial exists. A commission to maintain
the cemetery was organized in 2000. Three suicides are buried separately in
an area of high grasses. Burial records that survived floods and loss
(1942-1962) are kept at the Montefiore City Hall [December 2003]
PERLIZA: see Villaguay
PINEDO: see also CHACO province
Located along the railroad line to Las Brenas, Pinedo
is 20 km south of Charata on Provincial Route 94. A group of Jews settled there
in the 1920s only to abandon it for Presidencia Saenz Pena and Villa Angela. A
small, hidden, neglected cemetery contains 29 graves, the oldest of which is
from 1938. A section for women is on the left, facing their husbands and
separated by a path. From Pinedo's main street, turn left at the end of the road
bordering the Christian cemetery. The Jewish cemetery is behind that cemetery.
The municipal inspector has the key: 402 23rd Street, telephone 03731-480-064.
Article: Garber, Jacobo. "La Presencia Judia en el camp
chaqueno y su aporte a la grandeza de la provincia." El Interior, 14
July 1999. [December 2003]
POSADAS:
POSADAS, founded in 1615, is the provincial capital of Argentina's most northern
Province of Misiones with about 220,000 inhabitants, about 700 miles north of
Buenos Aires on the Parana River, the border with Paraguay. [January 2001]
November 1997 Report from Argentina JGS President
Paul Armory: Posadas cemetery (230 burials) registry was made tomb by tomb by a
student associated to us. Source: Ing. Paul Armony, Presidente, Sociedad
Argentina de Genealogia Judia
"Cemeteries in Argentina" by Paul Armony [in Spanish] from Toledot,
September 1999. [October 2000]
PRESIDENCIA ROQUE SAENZ PENA: also see Chado Province
Founded 1 March 1912 as "Kilometer 173", the
distance from Resistencia coming from Metan in Salta province. The town is 1186
km from Buenos Aires, 96 km from Villa Angela, and 100 km from Charata. The
population of 83,000 is descendents of settlers from Spain, Italy, Russian,
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine as well as Jewish families from
other places in Argentina. The Jewish population about 1945 was 200 families.
2001 finds ten families left. The empty Jewish community office is Asociacion
Fraternal Israelita de Presidencia Roque Saenz Pena, 13th Street between 16th
and 18th. Tel: (03732) 428-545. Contact caretaker: Matilde Starcevich or Ricardo
Mendelshon, .
El Cementerio Judio: Take 12th Street (San Martin Street) to the
pavement end. Continue on dirt road past the adjacent Juan XXIII City
Cemetery. Ricardo Mendelshon holds the keys. Benjamin Levit has an
alphabetical list of burials. Tel: (03732) 420-390. The entry has a Mogen
David and blue and white doors in the wall. The cemetery dates from 1920.
The 120 graves are burial sites for people from the following towns:
Quitilip, Avia Terai, Juan Jose Castelli, Pampa del Infierno, Concepcion del
Bermejo, Machagai, and Tres Iseltas. [December 2003]
PUEBLO CAZIS:
Founded in 1900, the 2000 population was 250. In the 1920s, 200 Jewish families
lived in Pueblo Cazis, the business center of San Antonio colony in
central-eastern Entre Rios province, 385 km from Buenos Aires, 221 km from
Concordia, 69 km from Pedernal, 45 km from San Salvador, and 5 km from Hambis.
The Jewish residents left in the 1960s.
El Cementerio Israelita de Pueblo Cazis: 4.5 km past "Cuartro
Bocas" Road across the Main Road to Hambis. Key holder: "Casa
Combet". 1 km on the right side of the cemetery entrance. Call ahead to
Centro Social Israelita Argentino, Concepcion del Urugay, (03442) 422-959.
Entrance is a white cement arch with a Mogen David on either side with a
double iron door. 150 graves (men right, women left) are amid a flower-lined
path. Monument to pioneers: Kolker, Menqui, Braun. Inscriptions are in
Hebrew and Spanish and mostly legible. [December 2003]
QUINTILIP: see PRESIDENCIA ROQUE SAENZ PENA
LA PLATA:
La Plata is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province,
the largest province of Argentina, about 30 miles from Buenos Aires. The Jewish
cemetery has about 2,800 tombstones. The oldest date from 1910. Source: Hector
Mondrik
RIO NEGRO Province: see General Roca,
Colonia Fatima (Colonia Rusa), and Cipolletti
RIVERA:
Located in west central (Central Pampa) Buenos Aires
province, 625 km from Buenos Aires, 60 lm from Carhue, and 20 km from the La
Pampa province border, on Route 60. The town, settled by Jews in 1905, is 76
blocks of paved streets, plazas, and monuments. [Recommended to stay in La Pampa
and not the hotel in the town.] The first settler was Mauricio Guesneroff, JCA
representative for the settle of "Colonia Baron Hirsch." Surrounding
towns of the settlement were Lapin, Montefiore, Philipson, Veneziani, Leven,
Clara, and Baron Guinzburg. Clara and Baron Guinzburg are in La Pampa province.
The railroad reached the town in 1907. The 1908 population was 186 families. In
1909, it was 251 families. In 1935, there were 5,000 Jews. Population decline
started in the 1940s. In 1970 census showed 3,340 people. The 2001 population of
2,900 has 180 Jewish families. The 1924 Sinagoga Baron Hirsch is located at San
Martin Avenue and Cordoba Street: Alberto Speier, President of the Jewish
Community, tel: (02935) 4-32234. The Jewish Cultural Center is located at 235 de
los Colonizadores Street. Tel: (02935) 4-32073. Director: Adelinda Castillo de
Alcayaga.
El Cementerio Israelita de Rivera: Five kilometers from River on
the road going south that goes to Huergo Railroad Station (parallel to the
train tracks.) Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Saturday. Contact: Gustavo Elman
and Abraham Sigal have the cemetery keys and all graves listings.
1,600 graves are found over 4.5 hectares surrounded by a brick wall and a
lighted entrance gate with a decorative iron fence. A Hebrew inscription is
over the gate on the brick arch. The first burial was in 1915 (settler Arieh
Reshtilovsky.) Cemetery contains a WWII memorial. The oldest graves are the
first four rows. One section in the center of the cemetery is for child
victims of a 1907 typhus and scarlet fever epidemic. The section has a large
menorah marker. [December 2003]
ROLON: see SAN VICENTE
Formerly Clara #1 and #2 and Baron Guinzburg #1 and #2 colonies. Baron Guinzburg
was also known as "cemetery colony." Clara colony has brick, cement
and limestone gravestones. [January 2003]
ROSARIO:
I saw in Rosario deteriorated pages with records from
early 1900s. I suppose that the same is in Moisesville where immigration started
around 1880. [July 2000]
