Alternate names: Bason Chadash, באסאן חדש (Hebr), Novo Basan (Pol), Нова Басань (Ukr), Новая Басань - Novaia Basan' (Russian). 50°34' N 31°31' E, 44.9 miles ENE of Kyyiv .
CEMETERY:
- Nova Basan' Jewish Cemetery - The site is derelict and requires identification, demarcation and fencing. [Mar 20145]
- US Commission No. UA24080101
- Alternate name: Nova Basan (Yiddish), Novo Basan (Polish) and Bason Chadosh (Ukraine). Novaya Basan 251163 is located in Chernigovskaya at 50º34 31º31, 69 km from Kiev and 27 km from Bobrovitsa. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with no Jews.
- The earliest known Jewish community was first half of 19th century. 1918 Jewish population (census) was 102. The last known Hasidic burial was 1941. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated suburban flat land has no sign or marker. It is reached by turning directly off a public road and crossing other public property. No stones are visible. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The unknown owner of cemetery property uses it for agriculture (crops or animal grazing). Properties adjacent are agricultural. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of agriculture. Jewish individuals within country cleaned stones and cleared vegetation. There is no maintenance now. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures.
- Sokolova Eleonora Evgenievna of 253152, Kiev, Tychini Prospect 5, Apt. 68 [Phone: (044)5505681] visited site on 8/11/94. Interviewed was Men Isaak Moiseevich of Pokinborody Street, 21 [Phone: (04632)22676] on 8/5/94 and Tsekalo Leonid Antonovich of 30 let Pobedy., 16 on 8/11/94. Sokolova completed survey on 08/11/1994.