The ‘Atlanta Gravestone Project’: Behind the push to mark every Jewish grave - Atlanta Journal Constitution

March 17, 2022

The ‘Atlanta Gravestone Project’: Behind the push to mark every Jewish grave - Atlanta Journal Constitution

From the Atlanta Journal- Constitution

When Leon Asner died, he had no family in Atlanta, no one to purchase a gravestone at the plot where he was buried.

Still, dozens attended the January 2020 funeral for Asner, a Holocaust survivor who, at age 85, fulfilled his goal of celebrating his bar mitzvah, the official milestone for becoming a Jewish man.

Now, the community is once again working together to support Asner and other Jewish Atlantans buried in unmarked graves at cemeteries across the city.

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