| Town | Earliest | # Graves | Modern burials? | Condition |
| Derazhnia Cemetery | 1500 | 7000 | Yes | Excellent |
| Derazhnia Mass Kill | 1942 | 3000 | Fair-overgrown, neglected. | |
| Kamenets-Podolski | 1500 | 10000 | Yes | Fair to good-most cemetery: stones readable but some sections vandalized. |
| Kamenets-Podolski Killing Site | 1942 | 10000+ | Original site covered by apartment block built after WWII; some bones relocated to mass graves within Jewish cemetery (located nearby). | |
| Letichev Mass Killing Site | 1942 | 7500 | Fair-monument, vandalized, needs stabilization. | |
| Letichev New Cemetery | 1860 | 1000 | Yes | Poor, vandalized and overgrown, gravestones overturned but can still be read |
| Letichev Old Cemetery | 1500 | 500 | No | Destroyed by a new house built on the site |
| Medzhib. Mass Killing Site | 1942 | 2000 | Excellent | |
| Medzhibozh New Cemetery | 1840 | 5000 | Yes | Good-neglected, overgrown. |
| Medzhibozh Old Cemetery | 1555 | 750 | No | Excellent |
| Mikhalpol Cemetery | 1860 | 200 | No | Poor, inscribed parts of gravestones completely removed by vandals |
| Proskurov Mass Killing Site | 1919 | 10000+ | Excellent | |
| Proskurov Cemetery | Pre-1900 | 10000+ | Yes | Good-I didn't spend much time here. |
| Shargorod Cemetery | 1500 | 7000 | Yes | Excellent-divided into sections, oldest part is in a different location than newer parts. |
| Stari Meidan Cemetery | 1845 | 50 | No | Poor-vandalized and overgrown, only a few gravestones can be read. |
| Volkovintsi Cemetery | 1950 | 25 | Yes | Good. starting to become neglected and overgrown. |
| Zinkov Cemetery | 1500 | 5000 | Yes | Poor, vandalized, virtually every stone purposely overturned, but some stones still readable. |
NOTES:
(1) Proskurov is now called Khmelnitsky. Mikhalpol is now called Mikhalovka.
(2) My estimates of earliest dates where often based on the style of gravestone, not necessarily from observable dates (not always available). The style of the gravestones was quite distinctive within different time periods.
(3) My above scale is purely subjective. It should be noted that the older cemeteries have significant natural degradation. This is strictly a function of the quality of the stonework, the composition of the stones, and the weathering conditions of the site. For instance, in the old cemetery at Medzhibozh while perhaps only a few hundred stones are visible, you get the impression that every square inch at one time had a stone over it. As you walk, underfoot you can feel stones or portions of them. I feel this is mostly an erosion effect and not an effect of vandalism in this particular cemetery. The surviving stones generally are quite massive with significantly deep carvings. Frost heave over many freeze-thaw cycles has a significant effect on whether the stones remain in their original upright positions. Generally, those gravestones with the upright parts that are firmly connected to a basal foundation tend to stay in their original positions. Others tend to topple over then subsequently get buried by soil and vegetation. It would be interesting and perhaps worthwhile to attempt to restore some of these cemeteries. This would primarily be an exercise in archeology, IMHO.
(4) Please don't ask me for additional information about any one of these cemeteries. ("Is Uncle Joe Schwartz buried there?"). For the most part, surnames were NOT carved into the stones until burials after WWII. Only in rare occasions does one get a hint as to who the people were or from which families. Two thousand stones that say "X ben/bat Y" unfortunately help no genealogist very much unless more careful work is done and you have additional information. I cannot tell you how many "Moshe ben Yisrael's" I saw. Only on occasion did you get other information. For instances, Cohens or Levys were *sometimes* marked differently. The Rabbis or Tsadiks were often the best marked. Source: David Chapin This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. [date?]