ZARUDINTSY

ZARUDINTSY I:     US Commission No. UA01700502 Zarudintsy is 19 km from Nemirov. The mass grave is located at the SE outskirts, in the orthodox cemetery. Present town population is under 1,000 with no Jews. Town officials: Village Soviet, Chairman Pan'kov Stanislav Ivanovich [Phone: (071) 37242]. The school detachment of search [sic], Chairman Chernysh Anatoly Yosifovich [Phone: (071) 33589]. Jewish Community of Vinnitsa, Chairman Desner. Regional: Regional State Archives of Vinnitskaya Oblast. Town had no Jewish community but had 1943 Jewish ghetto and concentration camp. The last known Jewish mass execution burial was Febr. 1943. Romanian and Bessarabian Jews were murdered here. The rural (agricultural) flat land, part of a municipal cemetery, has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road and crossing the public Orthodox cemetery, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds. The approximate size of mass grave is now 0.01 hectares. No stones are visible OR The mass grave has only common tombstones. The site contains unmarked mass graves. The municipality owns property used for the Jewish part of non-Jewish cemetery. Properties adjacent are Orthodox cemetery. The mass grave boundaries are larger now than 1939. The mass grave is visited occasionally by private visitors and local residents. This mass grave was not vandalized. There is no maintenance. Moderate threat: weather erosion (seasonal), existing and proposed nearby development. Slight threat: uncontrolled access, pollution and vegetation (seasonal). Sokolova Eleonora Eugen'evna of 253152 Kiev, 5 Tychiny St., Apt. 68 [Phone: (044) 5505681] visited site and completed survey on 22/10/96. Chernysh Anatoly Yosifovich of v. Kovalevka [Phone: (071) 33589] was interviewed on 22/10/96. ZARUDINTSY II:     US Commission No. UA01700501 See Zarudintsy I for town information. The mass grave is located on SE outskirts in the forest, 9 [or 19] km from Nemirov. The Jewish mass grave was dug in Febr. 1942. Romanian and Bessarabian Jews were murdered here. The isolated wooded flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road and crossing public field and forest, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds the mass grave. The approximate size of mass grave is now 0.01 hectares. No gravestones are visible. The municipality owns property used for Jewish cemetery only. Properties adjacent are agricultural and forest. The mass grave boundaries are larger now than 1939. Rarely, private visitors and local residents visit. This mass grave was not vandalized. There is no maintenance. Very serious threat: uncontrolled access (free access, near the mass burial in collective field). Serious threat: vegetation (The mass burial is unmarked, overgrown with the grass and bushes). Moderate threat: weather erosion, pollution and vandalism. Slight threat: existing and proposed nearby development. Soko      Sokolova Eleonora Eugen'evna of 253152 Kiev, 5 Tychiny St., Apt. 68 [Phone: (044) 5505681] visited site and completed survey on 22/10/96. Chernysh Anatoly Yosifovich of v. Kovalevka [Phone: (071) 33589] was interviewed on 22/10/96.

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