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Alternate names: Terebovlya, Теребовля [Rus, Ukr], Trembowla [Pol], Trembovla [Yid], Trebevle, Terebowlja, Terebovlia, טרמבובלה [Hebrew]. 49°18' N, 25°43' E, 18 miles SSE of Ternopil' (Tarnopol), 15 miles SW of Skalat. Yizkor: Sefer yizkor le-kehilot Trembowla, Strusow ve-Janow ve-ha-seviva. (Bnai Brak, [1981?]) Shtetlink.

US Commission Report No. UA19230101
Alternate names: Tereble (Yiddish), Trembovla (German), Trembowla (Hungarian) and Trenbovlya (Polish.) Terebovlya is located in Ternopolskaya at 49º18 25º43, 32 km from Ternopol and 114 km from Chernovtsy. The cemetery is located at N, Chaykovskogo St. Present town population is 5,001-25,000 with fewer than 10 Jews.

  • Town officials: Town Executive Council, Grod Stepan Mikhaylovich [Phone: (03551) 21461]. Organizer of Local History Museum, Zinchishin Igor Ilich.
  • Regional: Regional Executive Council, Matviykiv Nikolay Mikhaylovich [Phone: (03551) 21178]. Oblast State Administration, Skibnyavskiy Mikhail Vasilyevich [Phone: (03522) 25225]. Main Architect of Terebovlya Region, Kovalchuk Nikolay Fedorovich [Phone: (03551)22071]
  • Jewish Community 'Alef' of Paren Nuta Elyevich [Phone: (03522) 69323].
The earliest known Jewish community was end 17th century. The Jewish population (census) 1486 was 1486 [sic]. Effecting the Jewish community were middle 19th century St.ife of Hasidim with Haskalah. The last known Chortkovskaya Hasidic burial was 1940. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, gate, or fence surrounds the cemetery. No stones are visible. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. Municipality owns site now used for housing. Adjacent properties are residential. Local residents visit rarely. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II but not in the last ten years. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the cemetery is housing. In 1960, cemetery was destroyed to build housing. No threats.
Hodorkovskiy Yuriy Isaakovich of Kiev, Vozduhoflotskiy Prospect 37A, Apt. 23 [Phone: (044) 2769505] visited site on 22/04/1996. Interviewed were Hotienko Igor Ivanovich on 22/04/1996. Hodorkovskiy completed survey on /04/1996. Documentation: Encyclopaedia Judaica Wasiutinski B. Ludnosc zydowska w Polsce w wiekach XIX i XX, Warsawa, 1930.
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