R' Aaron Cohen • series: She'eilos U'Teshuvos Mi'maamakim 3

Setting up matzeiva in destroyed cemetery by R' Aaron Cohen

Published 7/30/2017, 12:07:18 PM • 10:11

Rav Oshry describes the wholesale destruction of Jewish cemeteries throughout Lithuania by the Nazis and their Lithuanian accomplices. A Mr. Segal posed the following Shaila to Rav Oshry: The tombstones of his parents’ graves had been destroyed and it was impossible to identify the location of their burial within the cemetery. Should he set up a Matzeiva (tombstone) memorializing his parents in the cemetery, even if it would not be located where they were buried?

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