Zvi Migdal Graves

The Paganini Hebraic Union Cemetery, located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, recently re-opened in October of 2019 after being closed for several years. This site is known as both “Zwi Migdal” or the “Cemetery of the impure,” as the individuals buried here either engaged in the brothel business or sex trafficking of women. The Jewish community sought to remove any identifiable characteristics of relatives or employees from these graves, and even employed the term “unclean” to those buried here in life and death.

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  1. Cayden, thank you for sharing images of these memorials. I love your point about people removing identifiable characteristics. The stone in the foreground clearly used to have a photo but now I wonder if it was removed vs. just fell off. Great information! don’t forget to give a source!
    best,
    Laura

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