On Wednesday, June 21st, a group of archaeologists began excavating some of the kevarim in the Jewish cemetery that is located right next to the Kever of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. This comes just days before the commemoration of the 30,000 Jews who were massacred in Uman by the Haidamaks in 1768 (Hey, Vav and Zayin Tammuz) and are buried in a mass grave in the areas surrounding Rebbe Nachman’s Kever.

The gabbai of the Tzion, Rav Noson Tzemach, used his own body to make the diggers stop their work. Unfortunately they returned later on and started digging again and members of the Jewish community in Uman along with Rav Noson Tzemach forced them to stop again.

Members of the Jewish community in Uman have said that those who invited the archaeologists are provocative groups who are trying to prove that the graves of the 30,000 massacred Jews do not exist r”l.