[Cz-L] 2005 US Commission report - "Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and Mass Grave Sites in Ukraine"

Visiting the website of the United States Commission for the Preservation of
America's Heritage Abroad (www.heritageabroad.gov) today, I found a link to
their recent report, "Jewish Cemeteries, Synagogues, and Mass Grave Sites in
Ukraine" (www.heritageabroad.gov/reports/doc/survey_ukraine_2005.pdf). The
illustrated 180-page report includes sections on Jewish heritage in Ukraine,
Jewish sites in Ukraine, and preservation efforts and issues. Several pages
discuss the constituencies who care about the location, access, and
condition of Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine -- primarily Hasidim and Jewish
genealogists -- and quote several of our colleagues.

More than half of the book is made up of these appendices:

- an alphabetical list of the localities surveyed by the Commission, with
oblast in parentheses

- lists of the synagogues, cemeteries, mass graves, and Holocaust memorials
that were surveyed (listed alphabetically by oblast, then town)

- contact individuals, institutions, and organizations

In these towns in Chernivetska oblast, one or more of following sites were
surveyed:

Babyn - mass grave
Baniliv - cemetery
Baniliv (Siret) - cemetery
Berehomet - cemetery
Chornohuzy - cemetery
Chernivtsi - cemetery, mass grave, Holocaust memorial, synagogue
Chudyn - mass grave
Hertsa - cemetery, Holocaust memorial, synagogue
Hlybochytsia - mass grave
Hlyboka (Adankata) - cemetery
Khotyn - cemetery, synagogue
Konstyntsi - mass grave
Kitsman - cemetery
Novoselivka - mass grave
Novoselytsia - synagogue
Putyla - cemetery
Sadhora - cemetery, synagogue
Seliatyn - synagogue
Shyshkivtsi - mass grave
Sokyriany - cemetery, synagogue
Vashkivtsi - cemetery, synagogue
Vyzhnytsia - cemetery, synagogue
Zastavna - cemetery, synagogue

According to the website, the Commission posts complete data on the Internet
via the IAJGS's International Jewish Cemetery Project
(www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e-europe). Additional information is also
available from uscommission_at_heritageabroad.gov .

Despite the broad mission that its name suggests, the Commission's focus is
endangered Jewish sites in Central and Eastern Europe.

Renee

Renee Stern Steinig
Dix Hills (Long Island), New York, USA
RSteinig_at_suffolk.lib.ny.us
Received on 2005-11-01 17:37:04