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SABA SYLVINA: see CHARATA

SAN CRISTOBAL: Santa Fe Province, San Cristobal district
The town was founded on 21 October 1890. Along with others, Jews from Poland and Russia arrived. The 2000 Jewish population was twenty families, most with mixed marriages. Sociedad Israelita de San Cristsbal, 804 Pueyrredon Street, Gregorio Sorkin, President, (03408) 422-314. Burials were in Monigotes or Moises Ville. [December 2003]

SAN GREGORIO: also see Entre Rios and Villa Dommnquez
Former name: Colonia Sonnenfeld. Located in the center of Entre Rios province, the town is 355 km from Buenos Aires, 50 km from Basavilvaso, 35 km from Villa Clara, 22 km from Villaguay and Ingeniero Sajaroff, and 17 km from Carmel. Sonnenfeld Colony was a bit outside Villa Dominguez (about 7 km) and was laid out like a Russian shtetl. The town functioned as a Chevra Kadisha for the area, the community of 52 Jewish families founded the first Jewish cemetery in Entre Rios province (1892) from land belonging to Aaron Yankelevich. The cemetery preceded the synagogue by one year. Named for Leven Sonnenfeld, director of the JCA, the name San Gregorio refers to the nearby woods. In the cemetery, parakeets fly among the eucalyptus and azerderach trees planted by the founders of the cemetery.

• El Cementerio Israelita de San Gregorio or La Recoleta de la Colonia Clara: Located on Provincial Route 20 from Villa Dominguez to Basavilbase. At the sign "El Aljibe" [The Well] turn right. A few meters further, a gravel road to the right leads to the cemetery open Friday and Sunday from sunup to 6 p.m. Key holder is Leon Salzman in Villa Dominguez (03455) 492043. Buried there are the following: Noe YARCHO, first physician to arrive in Argentina via JCA; Miguel SAJAROFF, Leon GURCHUNOFF, Gregorio SEGAL, BLACKIE family. A common grave from 1894 holds fifty people, who died from typhus from immigrants on the "Orione." Keeper of the cemetery for twenty years is Jose Feliciano Espinoza, who washes gravestones, plants flowers and prunes trees. He knows the location of every grave. The synagogue, 1 km away, is visible from the cemetery. [December 2003]

In San Salvador district with Walter Moss, General Campos, Arroyo Grande, and Las Colonias. The city has wide, tree-lined streets and unusual landscaping of palms, espumillos, and imported acacias. The town containing thirteen rice mills was called "las siete de la Jewish", JCA's seven colonies: Lopez and Berro (SW), Palmar and Yatay, Ubajay (SE), Walter Moss and Curbelo (N), and Santa Isabel (E). San Salvador was founded in 1889. Ashkenazi Jews arrived in 1907. 11,100 hectares were divided into plots and distributed among Creoles and immigrants with San Salvador as the cemetery. Rice in Entre Rios province was first grown (about 1932) in this area. In the 1940s, the population was about 4,000 with 600 Jews. In 2000, 35 Jewish families live among the population of 12,000.

• El Cementerio Israelita de San Salvador: Located on Avenida de la Paz (gravel road) and Avenida de los Rusos. Caretaker is Julio Mindez. The following have the key: Oscar Loskin (0345) 491-0302, Rivelos Family (0345) 491-0201, and Elias Mendelovich (0345) 491-0336. The cemetery opened officially in 1936, but some graves predate that founding. Jews from San Salvador were buried in Lopez and Berro until this cemetery opened. The cemetery entrance is a black iron door with two Mogen David in an arched gate topped with a Mogen David, "1934", and a sign in Hebrew and Spanish reading: "Cementerio Israelita." Within the cemetery is a caretaker building, a preburial room with a sign reading, "Board of Directors. 1995: Bernardo Grimberg, Adolfo Stubbing, Lesn Monastersky, Moisis Hornes, B. Pochter, and H. Furman. A low rectangular pyramid is the Holocaust Memorial. Separate section for men is to the right of the entry. The well-kept cemetery filled with calandria (a kind of lark) is ten blocks from downtown. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerios Israelia de las Colonias Domingo Calvo y Baron Guinsburg: On Provincial Route 18 from Parana to Concordia is a large arch indicating the still-active cemetery, 8 km from Villa Clara, before Jubileo. 32 km from Villaguay, 44 km from Villa Dominguez, 59 km from San Gregorio, 23 km from Ingeniero Sajaroff, 27 km from Carmel, and 72 km from Basavilbaso. Keys: Abraham Kreiserman, tel (03455) 491014. Entry to the bucolic site is through two ranch gates and then an iron bar gate with a Mogen David attached to a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire and attached to a caretaker house. Graves date from the 1910s. No separate sections. Common graves exist for the 1913 and 1916 typhus epidemics. Memorial markers are flat stones, obelisks, and multistone monuments of marble and other stone. Some have photographs. Inscriptions are mostly in Hebrew or Yiddish. The burial book is in the possession of Zulema Danses de Fink of Villa Clara. 126 men and 86 women and one with only a surname. Two burials occurred in 2000. Very little space for additional burials exists. [December 2003]

• Cemetery: The cemetery is located on Malvinas Argentina Avenue, next to the municipal cemetery. Opened in 1953 on land donated by Governor Carlos Arturo Juarez, the carob tree filled cemetery contains 180 graves with Gothic lettered inscriptions. [December 2003]
  

UBAJAY:
Formerly Colonias Palmar and Yatay in NE Entre Rios province, 57 km from the beach in Colon, 14 km from "Palm Forest National Park" (Parque Nacional El Palmar) on National Route 14 (El Camino Real) from Buenos Aires to Brazil, 372 km from Buenos Aires, 51 km from Concordia, 45 km from General Campos, 35 km from San Salvador, 35 km from Pueblo Cazis, 40 km from Hambis, and 25 km from Pedernal. Trucks on the dangerous road called "La ruta de la muerte" replaced the railroad that linked the towns. The two colonies of Palmar and Yatay mentally merged because of their close geographic proximity. The 11,368-hectare colony was named for the native Yatay palm tree. Fifty Jewish families, mostly Ashkenazi Jews from Russia, founded the colony in 1912. In 1939, 108 Jewish families lived in Ubajay, 45 of them farmers. In 2000, only three Jewish families remained out of the general population of 2,000. City Hall is located at 147 Caraguata Street, 0345-490-5090. Open 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• Cementerio Israelita de Ubajay: On the gravel Road to San Salvador to the fork, then on the left road for 1.5 km, Jaime Hejt has the keys (0345) 490-5031. Set in a large open field at the top of a hill with a row of palm trees on either side is a decorative metal fence with a Mogen David set in a wire and post fence. At the entry of the cemetery is a double cast iron gate with a Mogen David. A little building with a door, window, and Mogen David is just beyond the gate. Founded in 1917 at the death of a three month-old girl, three rows of women's grave are on the left and six rows of men on the left, totally about one hundred graves with Hebrew inscriptions, some illegible. Graves were repaired in the 1980s in the still active (occasionally) cemetery. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita de Alcaraz: Located 10 km from the town on a dirt road, contact Ruben "Bocha" Berman or Semaj Berman . A chain link fence with an iron Mogen David and Menorah surround the cemetery begun in 1920s. A small white preburial house and Holocaust memorial are within the site. 200 graves have women on the right and men on the left. One couple is buried together. [December 2003]
  

• El Cementerio Israelita: Located on Falucho Street, starting at the train station, take JB Justo Street to Lisandro de la Torre Street. At the end, turn left onto Avenida del Trabago to the intersection. Turn right for 500 meters. The key holder is Rodolfo Corzo, who lives next door to the always-locked cemetery. La Chaquena Company donated one hectare of land in 1934 for the cemetery. A Mogen David above the wooden entry door in the high wall as "1934" in the center. Prior to 1934, Villa Angela Jews used the cemeteries at Charata or Resistencia. Inscriptions are in Yiddish and Spanish. Up to 1976, the cemetery had 121 graves. One marked with two cement triangles forming a Mogen David holds the three torahs burned in the fire. [December 2003]
  

Director: Fabiana Quiroga.

• El Cementerio Israelita de Clara-Bilez: From downtown, take San Martin Avenue to Yrigoyen Street to Diamante Street to the cemetery. Contact: Zulema Danses de Fink, Graves date from 1892. The first burial was a Piamante, Italy Jewish couple, who died in a boat accident. By rumor, the still-active, but crowded, cemetery was founded by Ionte Anapolsky, who died at age 114. Some graves have sheet metal plates with inscription in Hebrew. Some gravestones are inscribed marble. Some have photographs. Cemetery contains a Holocaust memorial. [December 2003]
  

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