NOVOFASTOV

NOVOFASTOV: People from here were also buried in the mass grave at Pogrebishche (Comm.No. UA01500501 and 503)
NOVOFASTOV: US Commission No. UA01530101
Novofastov is 22 km from Pogrebishthe and 19 km from Rgevuskaya. The cemetery is located at NNW outskirts of the village, Lysaya Gora Street. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with no Jews.
-- Town officials: Village Soviet Chairman Grinchuk Ivan Adamovich [Phone: (071) 23530].
-- Jewish Community of Vinnitsa Chairman Desner.
-- Others: Regional State Archives of Vinnitsa.
     The earliest known Jewish community was 18-19th centuries. 1926 Jewish population was 289. Effecting Jewish community was the Jewish ghetto and October 1941 mass executions in Pogrebishthe. The last known Hasidic burial was in 1941. Babintchy (2 km away) used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated wooded hillside and crown of hill 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 approximate size of cemetery before WWII was 1.60 and is now 0.05 hectares. Vegetation overgrowth is a seasonal problem, a constant problem, preventing access and disturbing graves and stones. Water drainage at cemetery is a seasonal problem. 1 to 20 common tombstones date from the 20th century. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. Municipality owns property used for Jewish cemetery and industrial or commercial use. Properties adjacent are commercial-industrial and forest. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of the forest. Occasionally, private visitors and local residents visit. The cemetery was not vandalized in the last ten years. Jewish individuals within country did re-erection of stones, cleaned stones and cleared vegetation in 1941-constant care. There is no maintenance now. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Very serious threat: uncontrolled access (on the outskirts of the village near the road in the forest), vegetation (overgrown with trees and bushes, abandoned) and vandalism (Building of the road demolished 70% of the stones.) Moderate threat: weather erosion, pollution and existing nearby development. Slight threat: proposed nearby development. Water drainage and growth are seasonal problems.
     Sokolova Eleonora Eugen'evna of 253152 Kiev, 5 Tychiny Street, Apt. 68 [Phone: (044) 5505681] visited site on 03/10/96. Interviewed was Steshak Nadegda Kuzminichna of 23 Lysaya Gora Street on 03/10/96. Sokolova completed survey on 03/10/96.