This exclusively-Jewish cemetery, divided into two parts that are very nearby one another, is located in the industrial zone of Lubumbashi outside the railroad tracks.  Solid masonry wall with metal entry gates surround the properties.    Altogether some 219 graves can be found here containing the names of both Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish settlers to the country who came to be buried here.  Included among them is the artist’s first cousin, a Franco, who died as a baby.    A variety of stone markers mostly of granite and inscribed in a combination of Hebrew, English, and French fill the site.

At the time of the artist’s visit, both sections were in good condition and well maintained.   The cemeteries were organized in neat rows, the ground covered mostly in earth and gravel, and some interspersed small trees and shrubs provided shade, greenery, and a sense of place to the flat sites.    At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Vittorio (Vico) Levi, a descendent of Lubumbashi’s Jewish community, generously funded the restoration of the cemetery.  Just nearby is a colonial-period White Christian cemetery.   Also in the immediate area are some low-scaled commercial and industrial buildings.