IVANOPOLI

IVANOPOLI I:     US Commission No. UA05330101
Alternate name: Yanushpol (Russian). Ivanopol is located in Zhitomirskaya, 27km from Chudnov. The cemetery is located north at 1st of May Street 67. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with fewer than 10 Jews.

• Town officials: Village Council of Andriychuk Eduard Grigoryevich [Phone: 44251].
  
• Others: Skripnik Sonya Leyzerovna of Ivanopol, Kalinina Street 14.

     The earliest known Jewish community was 1775. 1925 Jewish population (census) was 1490. The Hasidic Jewish cemetery was established in 19th century with last known Jewish burial in 1975. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban flat land with no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds site. 1 to 20 stones, less than 25% toppled or broken, date from 1940. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery has no special sections. Some tombstones have portraits and/or metal fences around graves. The cemetery contains marked mass graves. The municipality owns the property used for Jewish cemetery only. Adjacent properties are residential. The cemetery boundaries are unchanged since 1939. Local residents visit rarely. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II and occasionally in the last 10 years. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Vegetation overgrowth is a seasonal problem, preventing access. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access, pollution, vegetation and vandalism. Slight threat: weather erosion and proposed nearby development.
     Kogan Leonid of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina Street, 107,apt.42. [Phone: (04141) 54259] visited site on 24/08/1995. He completed survey on 10/18/1995. Interviewed was Skripnik Sonya Leyzerovna of Ivanopol, Kalinina Street 14 on 24/07/1995.
IVANOPOL II:     US Commission No. UA05330501
     See Ivanopol is located in Zhitomirskaya. The mass grave is located at southeast, near K. Marksa Street. The unlandmarked Jewish mass grave was dug 29 May 1941. The last known Hasidic Jewish burial was 1942. No other towns or villages' Jews were murdered at this mass grave. The Between fields and woods, the isolated flat land has signs or plaques in Ukrainian mentioning the Holocaust. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A continuous fence with no gate surrounds the mass grave. 1 to 20 stones, all in original location with no surviving stones toppled or broken, date from 1990. No stones were removed. The mass grave has no special sections. The mass grave has tombstones metal fences around graves. The site contains marked mass graves. Municipality owns the site now used for mass burial site. Adjacent properties are agricultural. The mass grave boundaries is larger now than 1939. Rarely, private visitor (Jews and non-Jews) and local residents visit. This mass grave never was vandalized. Local/municipal authorities erected stones in 1990. Now, authorities clear or clean occasionally. Within the limits of the mass grave are no structures. Vegetation overgrowth is a seasonal problem, preventing access. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access and vandalism. Slight threat: weather erosion, pollution, vegetation, and proposed nearby development.
     Kogan Leonid of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina Street, 107,apt.42. [Phone: (04141) 54259] visited site on 24/07/1995. Interviewed was Skripnik Sonya Leyzerovna of Ivanpol, Kalinina Street, 14 on 24/07/1995. He completed survey on 10/08/1995.