Recording Cultural Genocide 3D Models
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In Jewish culture, cemeteries lie at the very heart of the community and they are known as the House of the Living due to the belief that the soul of a person is bound to their grave. Due to these beliefs, graves (and the ground above them) should not be disturbed after burial and the maintenance of cemeteries is considered to be the responsibility of all Jewish communities.
Therefore, when Jewish cemeteries are vandalised and destroyed, Jews believe this disturbs the souls of the people buried there. During the Holocaust, deliberate acts were carried out in an attempt to erase Jewish culture. To further humiliate and defile Jewish communities, the Nazis also often made Jews take part in the breaking up and reuse of the matzevot (gravestones).