We are glad to present some fragments of Mr. Gary Liption's report on his last trip to Ivansk cemetery, where we was supervising the placing of matzevot on the cemetery enclosure wall.

 Dear family and friends,
 Norton Taichman and I just returned from a week in Poland. I wanted to send out a quick letter with a few pics.
   The main purpose of the trip was to mount the matzevot that had been recovered into the newly-constucted cemetery enclosure wall. This convention has been adopted by numerous cemetery restoration projects since Halacha does not allow the stones to be remounted arbitrarily within the cemetery proper. Having seen cemetery reconstructions with fragments of matzevot placed incorrectly, eg. upside down, diagonally, or contiguous fragments not matched up, we wanted to supervise the placing of our matzevot. Keep in mind that after the war every single matzevah was removed from the Ivansk cemetery. Every stone that we have was returned by local inhabitants in the area, or found on the surface of the cemetery by our group. Hopefully, more matzevot will turn up in the future. We placed 13 mountings of sizable fragments, including one restored almost complete fragment and one complete matzevah, and two areas of small pieces, for a total of fifteen locations. 
   The majority of the money that was raised went to finance the construction of the enclosure wall: 545 metres in length (five and a half football fields in length!!!).  Within the next couple of weeks the iron gate will be constructed and mounted. An inscription plaque will be mounted on the outside of the gate to the right and a four language (Hebrew, Yiddish, English, Polish) granite obelisk with more detailed information will be set within the gate between the reclaimed matsevot. 
    A big "thank-you" to Greg Gregorczyk, an important member of the Ivansk Project and our best friend in Poland, to Andrzej Omasta and Norman Weinberg of the Polish Jewish Cemeteries Restoration Project, and to Monika Krawczyk the Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland.

Keep in touch, and see you soon, in Ivansk.