ALTERNATE NAMES: OL'GOPOL' [RUS, YID], OL'HOPIL' [UKR], OLHOPOL [POL], OL'GAPOL', OLAPOLIA. 48°12' N, 29°30' E, 19 miles NNW of Balta.. Jewish population: 2,473.
- JewishGen Ukraine SIG
- Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), VII, pp. 481-482: "Olhopol".
- Shtetl Finder (1980), p. 66: "Olgopol, Olapolia".
- Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), p. 934: "Olgopol".
- Jewish Virtual Library [Mar 2014]
WIKIPEDIA: "In 1926 the Jewish population numbered 1,660 (76.4% of the total). At the time of the German-Rumanian occupation (July 1941), most of the Jews fled from the townlet, which was incorporated into the zone annexed by the Rumanians (Transnistria). The Jews who remained were concentrated into a ghetto together with about 600 Jews who had been expelled from Bessarabia and Bukovina, all of them being submitted to forced labor in the vicinity."[Mar 2014]
CEMETERY:
map. [Mar 2014]
- US Commission No. UA01140101
- Alternate name: Roguzka-Chechelnitskaya (Polish). Olgopol is located in Vinnitskaya O. Chechelnit at 48°12 29°30, 270km from Odessa and 82km from Vinnitsa. The cemetery is located at 3km from town in direction of Chechelnik. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with fewer than 10 Jews.
- Town officials: Town Executive Coucil and Chechelnik Regional Council - Myrakhovski Vladimir Andriyevich.
- Regional: Vinnitska Oblast Council, Melnick Nikola Evtukhovich [Phone: (0432)327540]. Vinnitska Oblast Cultural Society of Ilechyk Nikola Nikolayevich [Phone: (0432)327540].
- Caretaker: Kotenko Mariya, who lives next to cemetery.
- Others: Yakov Sergeivitch Kifarenko of Director, Museum of Geography, Olgopol, Chechenitskogo Region, Vin. Oblast Vinnitska Oblast Jewish Community - Gybenko Bella Aronovna [Phone: (0432)351666].
- The earliest known Jewish community was 18th century. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 1660. Effecting Jewish Community were 1918-20 pogroms and Ghetto, 1941-44. The last known Hasidic burial was 1992. Bessarabia (5km away) and Balta (5km away) used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated suburban hillside has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A continuous fence with a non-locking gate surrounds. 101 to 500 stones, most in original location with less than 25% toppled or broken, date in the 19th century. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery has special sections for men and women. Some tombstones have traces of painting on their surfaces, iron decorations or lettering, other metallic elements, portraits on stones and/or metal fences around graves. The cemetery contains marked mass graves and unmarked mass graves. Municipality owns property used for Jewish cemetery only. Properties adjacent are agricultural. The cemetery boundaries are unchanged since 1939. Occasionally, local residents visit. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II and occasionally in the last ten years. Jewish individuals within country and abroad. patched broken stones, cleaned stones, cleared vegetation and fixing of gate in 1945-1948. The regular caretaker is paid by Jewish survivors and visitors' contributions. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Vegetation overgrowth is a seasonal problem, preventing access. Water drainage at the cemetery is a seasonal problem. Very serious threat: vegetation (The entire old (lower) part of the cemetery is overgrown with trees and shrubs, access impossible.). Moderate threat: uncontrolled access, weather erosion and pollution. Slight threat: vandalism.
- Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of 270065, Odessa, Varnenskaya 17D, Apt. 52 [Phone: (0482)665950] visited site and completed survey on 16/06/1994. Interviews were not listed. Documentation: Town Populations of the Russian Empire, Podol region, St.P 1864; Gulman V.P. Historical Monuments in Podol region, Kamenets-Podol, 1901; Krilov, A., Population of towns in the Podol region, Kam-Pod, 1905; National Minorities of Ukraine, Kharkov, 1925. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.