Extensive mowing for Open Monuments Day

A group of volunteers and garden company Facilitel undertook an extensive mowing of the cemetery grounds to prepare for the guided tours during Open Monuments Day (September 10). Photos: Anne Dunkelgrün

Opening new volunteer season!

We had a very good opening to the new season. At 11.00 it was pouring rain and many people called off, with reason, but one-half hour later it was dry. Rob Gmelig Meijling, our former board member, gave a very interesting tour as an introduction to the cemetery. We had eight new volunteers and 12 from the ‘vastekern’,  who came …

Volunteers

A new season !

With spring approaching we will soon start our third year of “green work” by volunteers at the old Jewish cemetery in The Hague. Our volunteers are very important and dear to our Foundation which is tasked with maintaining and taking care of this monument. You don’t need to have a ‘green thumb’ ! Just a nice feeling to be in …

Judith Baars and The Hague Volunteer Awards 2022

Our volunteer Judith Baars was nominated as one of 82 The Hague residents for the ‘The Hague Volunteer Awards 2022’, in the category ‘Neighborhood and Vicinity’. Judith works enthusiastically in our tight-knitted volunteer team, helping to maintain the grounds and contributing to our project to record stories about Jewish citizens of The Hague buried here. She is also volunteering for …

27 Maart 2022

March 27, 2022

Our second season has begun! We had the most perfect weather and with 20 enthusiastic volunteers, it was a wonderful start of 2022. It was so wonderful to see our loyal group after a break of several winter months and to work together again. We worked in an area with gravestones that had not been cleared of moss, grass and …

crocuses

February 27, 2022

Last Sunday, spring was in the air. Last month we discovered snowdrops and this month the crocuses were in bloom. We chose to work in a part of the cemetery that we had not done before. Cleaning the stones and removing moss, sticks, acorns and weeds was very satisfying. What we discovered were beautiful tombstones, some of which were still …

Winterwerk dag 2022

January 29, third winter work day

The remaining work days for this year are: Sunday March 27, Sunday April 24, Sunday May 29, Friday June 24, Sunday July 31, Sunday August 28, Friday September 23, Sunday October 30 Please pre-register: annedfhotmail.com A group of about ten volunteers, led by Rineke, wanted to work in the cemetery during the winter months. They decided to work once a …