The Jewish community of Kremenchug, Ukraine received a plot of land in the city’s municipal cemetery. According to Rabbi Shlomo Salamon, chief rabbi of Kremenchug, the community welcomed the city authorities’ decision because there was no space left in the old Jewish cemetery.
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