KRASNOPOLKA

KRASNOPOLKA:     US Commission No. UA01640501
Krasnopolka is 25 km from Gaysin. The mass grave is located at the mass burial is at 3.5 km from northern outskirts. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with no Jews.
-- Town officials: Village Soviet Chairman-Sidorchuk Nikolay Yakovlevich [Phone: (071) 51245]. Village Soviet, KSP 'Bolshevik' Chairman-Sidorchuk Nikolay Yakovlevich [Phone: (071) 51210].
-- Jewish Community of Vinnitsa of Chairman-Desner.
-- Caretaker: School of Krasnopolka Director-Kravchuk Sergey Mikhailovich [Phone: (071) 51271]. Others: Local History Museum of the Village, Director-Gromovoy Nikifor Terentievich [Phone: (071) 51343]
-- Regional State Archives of Vinnitskaya Oblast
     The Jewish mass grave was dug in 1942-1943 with last known Jewish burial in 1943. Polish and Western Ukraine Jews were murdered here also. The unlandmarked isolated rural (agricultural) flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road and crossing other public property (KSP ""Bolshevik"), access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds the mass grave. No stones are visible. The municipality owns the property used for agriculture (crops or animal grazing). The mass burial is a collective field, which is tilled annually.). Adjacent properties are agricultural. The mass grave boundaries is larger now than 1939. Occasionally, organized individual tours, Jewish or non-Jewish private visitors, and local residents stop at site. This mass grave has not been vandalized. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the mass grave are no structures. No threats.
     Sokolova Eleonora Eugen'evna of 253152 Kiev, 5 Tychiny Street, Apt. 68 [Phone: (044) 5505681] visited site and completed survey on 23/10/96. Interviewed on 23/10/96 was Reshetnik Antonina Maximovna of 3 Kommunalnaya Street [Phone: (071) 51325].