Source: The Denver Post

On May 17, 1999, The Denver Post reported that 100 volunteers from the Jewish community in Denver cleaned up the paupers' section of Golden Hill Cemetery, which contains the graves of Jewish tuberculosis victims from the early 1900s who fled from New York to Denver to seek treatment. Historian Ron Sladek stated: "In those times, when people got on the trains to Denver, their families would just kiss them goodbye and basically write them off for dead. They knew they weren't ever going to see them again." The clean-up continues a 10-year effort to maintain the paupers' section of the cemetery. Rob Rubin, executive director of the Synagogue Council of Greater Denver, stated: "The dead cannot come back and thank us or try to repay us for what we have done. Carrying out this mitzvah is the most selfless act we can do."