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STRIY: used the cemetery at Golobutov
STRIY I:     US Commission No. UA13220101
The cemetery is located NW of L'vov-Nadvornaya railway line.
  • State Archives of L'vovskaya Oblast.
The last known Hasidic burial was 1941. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open with permission. A continuous fence with locking gate surrounds the unlandmarked cemetery. The approximate size of cemetery before WWII was 1.00 hectares. Location of any removed stones is unknown. No tombstones or known mass graves exist. Municipality owns site used for industrial or commercial use and storage. Properties adjacent are commercial or industrial. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of commercial or industrial development. Rarely, Jewish or non-Jewish private visitors and local residents visit. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II and not in the last ten years. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the cemetery are industrial structures. Very serious threat: uncontrolled access (The cemetery is destroyed, the tombstones gone. The property is polluted.) and vandalism. Serious threat: pollution, vegetation (seasonal) and existing nearby development.
Gel'ston I.I. of a/c10569, L'vov 290049 [Phone: (0322) 227490] visited and completed survey on 05/10/96 to 10/10/96. Skripets S.V. was interviewed on 05/10/96.
STRIY II:     US Commission No. UA13220102
The cemetery is located at 9 Zelenaya Street. The town is located at 23º51 49º15. Striy is 77 km from L'vov. Present town population is 25,001-100,000 with 11-100 Jews.
  • Town officials: Town State Dept. of Dept. of Architecture [Phone: (03245) 55716. Town State Department.
  • Pogoretsky Pavlo Yurkovich of Apt.7, 12 Zelenaya Street. [Phone: (03245) 58657].
The earliest known Jewish Community was 1576. 1939 Jewish population was 10988. Effecting the Jewish Community was 17 April1886 fire in Striy and Big Synagogue. Living here were Osiya Shapiro, Iosif Gorovits, and Anshl Groskonf. Jewish community was Hasidic. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds the unlandmarked cemetery. The approximate size of cemetery before WWII was 0.65 hectares. No stones are visible. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. Municipality owns site used for housing. Properties adjacent are commercial or industrial and residential. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of housing development and commercial or industrial development. Rarely, private visitors and local residents stop. The cemetery was not vandalized in the last ten years. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the cemetery the houses. Very serious threat: uncontrolled access (The cemetery is destroy.), vandalism (The cemetery is destroy.) and existing nearby development (On the property of the cemetery is the residential.) Moderate threat: pollution.
Gel'ston I.I. of a/c10569, L'vov 290049 [Phone: (0322) 227490] visited and completed survey on 05/09/96 and 10/10/96. Pogoretsky Pavlo Yurkovich of Apt. 7, 12 Zelenaya Street was interviewed on 05/10/96.