Wearing masks to work within Slovakia’s coronavirus restrictions, volunteers have almost fully completed the restoration of the Jewish cemetery in Námestovo, Slovakia, which suffered a vandal attack in December 2019 that saw at least 60 headstones toppled.
The cemetery’s Facebook page reported that restoration work (financed in large part through crowd-funding) began on April 2, three days after Slovakia relaxed some of its COVID-19 restrictions to allow the reopening of some shops and a resumption of some outdoor activities. Posts on the Facebook page since then have documented the work with pictures — and announced on April 23 that repairs were almost finished.
In addition to repairing, re-erecting, and resetting the toppled stones, organisers also installed a CCTV video monitoring system.
