v. KOLOD'YANKA: US Commission No. UA05270501
Alternate names: Kolodianka (Ukraine). v. Kolod'yanka is located in Zhitomirskaya, 22 km from Novograd-Volynskiy. The mass grave is located at 200 m on the west of the railway station Kolod'yanka. Present town population is under 1,000 with no Jews.
- Town officials: Chairman of Village Soviet-Nedzelskaya Mariya Markovna of 071 69-336. Regional: Society of Cultural and Historical Memorial Preservation - Chairman-Borisyuk Nina Eugenievna [Phone: (0412) 370807]. Regional Cultural Department-Chairman Vertenskiy Nikolay Andreevich.
- Jewish Community 'Vozrozhdeniye' -Novograd-Volynskiy.
- Others: Local resident Makarchuk A.N. of c. Svetlovodsk, Matrosova St. 37.
The earliest known Jewish community was 1784. 1926 Jewish population (census) was 41. The Jewish mass grave was dug in July 1941. No Jews from other towns or villages were murdered here. The unlandmarked rural (agricultural flat land has no sign or marker mentioning the Holocaust. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds the mass grave. Location of any removed tombstones is unknown. The mass grave has no special sections but contains unmarked mass graves. Owner is property is unknown. The mass grave property is now used for agriculture (crops or animal grazing). Adjacent properties are railway station. Rarely, Jewish or non-Jewish visitors and local residents visit site. This mass grave has not been vandalized. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the mass grave are no structures. Serious threat: vandalism. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access. Slight threat: weather erosion, pollution, vegetation, and existing nearby development and proposed nearby development.
Kogan Leonid of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina Street 107, Apt. 42 [Phone: (04141) 54259] visited site and completed survey on 18/03/1995 with Androshchuk Hevroniya Petrovna and Luk'yanetz Sergey Vasil'yevich. Interviewed on 18/03/1995 were Nedzelskaya M.M. and Goncharuk Odarka of Stantzionnaya St. 5. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.
