GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH IN THE FORMER CEMETERY IN ŠNIPIŠKĖS HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED
On 3 July, Vice-Minister of Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jaroslavas Neverovičius received head of Israeli geophysics Arieh Klein, who informed him about the successful course of the geophysical research in the former cemetery in Šnipiškės.
The geophysical research was carried out by an Israeli company Geotec with the presence of Lithuanian Geological Survey. The research started on 25 June and was finished on 4 July. The research was financed by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania (102,000 Euro).
Results of this geophysical research Geotec will analyse according to the indication of georadars on its return to Israel.
Seeking to identify the boundaries of the cemetery in Šnipiškės as precisely as possible, the geophysical research will be complemented by archaeological digging, which will be carried out by archaeologists, invited by the Department of Cultural Heritage Protection under the Ministry of Culture, and Rabbis, delegated by the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe, will supervise the digging.
It is intended that in the middle of August, Geotec will consider results of the geophysical and archaeological research and will submit their conclusions regarding the boundaries of the cemetery in Šnipiškės to Lithuanian Geological Survey, which signed an agreement with Geotec back in May on the works, as commissioned by the Government of Lithuania.
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