LISHNYOVKA

LISHNYOVKA:     US Commission No. UA02330101
Alternate names: Lishniovka (Yiddish), Lishnivka (German), Lisnovka (Polish) and Lishnyovka (English). Lishnyovka is 128 km from Lutsk and 114 km from Rovno. The cemetery is located in the village center, 150m from the church. Present town population is under 1,000 with no Jews.

• Town officials: Village Executive Soviet, 264819, Manyevichevskiy rayon, Vohlinskaya Oblast,-Lishnyovka village Chairman Kotovilchik Stepan Alekseyevich, [Phone (071) 21665]. Village Executive Soviet, Vice-Chairman Melnik Lubov Vasiliyevna.
  
• Regional: Monument Preservation Department of Vohlynian Museum of Regional Study, of 263000, Lutsk, Galana Street N2, Chemeris Ye. V. [Phone (03322) 42253]. State Archives of Vohlinskaya Oblast, 263024, Lutsk, Veteranov Street N21, [Phone (03322)57533]
  
• Jewish Community of Vohlinskaya Oblast, 263000, Lutsk, Vinnichenko Street N49, Apt. 6, Chairman Dolinskiy S.P. [Phone (03322) 40045]. Israel, Yad Vashem, and Jewish Community of Vohlin 'Dom Vohlini'.
  

     The earliest known Jewish community was 17-18 century. 1939 Jewish population was 3. Effecting Jewish Community were Pogroms by Khmelnitskiy, First World War, 1917 Revolution, 1920 Brest Peace process, 1939 joining the USSR. The last known Lubavichevskiye Hasidic burial was 1941. Karasin (15 km away) used this unlandmarked cemetery. The urban flat land, separate but near other cemeteries, has no sign or marker. Reached by village central road, access is open to all. No wall or fence or gate surrounds the cemetery. The approximate size of cemetery before WWII was 0.04 and is now 0.03 hectares. 1 to 20 common tombstones date from 19th to 20th century. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. Municipality owns the property now used for storage and waste dumping. Adjacent properties are residential. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of housing development. Rarely do local residents visit. The cemetery was not vandalized in the last ten years. There is no maintenance now. Within the limits of the cemetery is a house built on the part. Serious threat: vandalism and existing nearby development. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access and pollution. Slight threat: proposed nearby development.
     Kirzhner Moisey Davidovich of 263005 Lutsk, Grushevskogo Street 18, Apt. 38 [Phone (03322) 34775] visited site and completed survey on 19/11/1996. Interviewed on 18/11/1996 was Kotovilchik Stepan Alekseyevich, Village Executive Soviet Chairman. Documentation: The Holocaust of Vohlynian Jews. Yad Vashem; Federation of Vohlynian Jews, Jerusalem, Shmuel Spector.