Alternate names: Gritsev Грицев [Rus], Ritzev [Yid], Hritsiv Гриців [Ukr], Hryców [Pol], Hryciv, Haritzev, Ritzov, Grıtsiv, Gricev, Grizew
49°58' N, 27°13' E, 39 miles NNE of Khmelnytskyy (Proskurov), 21 miles ESE Izyaslav (Zaslav), 17 miles SW of Polonnoye, 15 miles N of Starokostyantyniv. 2900 Jewish population: 979 (in 1897), 1,095 (in 1939).
- JewishGen Ukraine SIG
- Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), III, p. 192: "Hryców".
- Shtetl Finder (1980), p. 27: "Haritzev", p. 83: "Ritzov".
- Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), p. 454: "Gritsev
In 1752 Mikhail Grokholsky Gritsev have bought Lubomirski and from then until the end of the XIX century, the city and the castle belonged to his family. At the end of the nineteenth Gritsev century was a classic Jewish shtetl. From Brockhaus and Efron: "Gritsev - Zaslavsky county town of Volyn province. In 1847" Grits. Heb. society "were 1,194 souls, in 1897 inhab. 1,011, of which 979 Jews. There are three chapels: bet-gamidrash 1839, the other from 1845 and 1850, two Hasidic Chapel from 1871 and 1900 Sum boxed. collection reaches 1,700 rubles. " township was occupied by the German army on July 4, 1941. The first mass execution of Jews Gritsevskogo ghetto was exactly a month after the arrival of the Germans - August 4, 1941. 268 people were killed. Survivors distilled in Starokonstantinov ghetto, where almost everything - about 400 people - were killed. Gritsev Since 1959 has the status of urban settlement.: Detailed photos. [Mar 2014]
CEMETERY:
Located about eight miles from Labun
- GRITSEV I: US Commission No. UA22200101
- Alternate name: Gricev (Yiddish), Gricew (Hungarian), Haritzev (Polish), Ritzov (Russian) and Gritsiv (Ukraine). Gritsev is located in Khmelnitskaya at 49÷58 27÷13, 30 km from Shepetovka, 60 km from Khmelnitskiy, and 101 km from Rovno. The cemetery is located at center near the school. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with fewer than 10 Jews.
- Town officials: Village Soviet - Bushev Nikolay Fedorovich.
- Regional officials: Shepetovka Regional Department of Culture-Bogurskaya Lidiya Matveevna. Shepetovka rayispolkom Bondarchuk Ivan Petrovich (03840) 52752. Oblispolkom Guseynikov Evgeniy Yakovlevich (03822) 65025.
- Others: Shepetovka rayispolkom, Berezovskaya Lidiya Pavlovna (03840) 52196.
- The earliest known Jewish community was 18th century. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 1578. Effected Jewish Community: 1675-Magdeburg Right. The last known Hasidic Jewish burial was 1988. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban 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 the cemetery. 501 to 5000 stones, most in original location with less than 25% toppled or broken, date from 1824. Location of any removed stones is unknown. Some tombstones have traces of painting on their surfaces, other metallic elements or portraits on stones. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The municipality owns the property used for Jewish cemetery only. Adjacent properties are residential. The cemetery boundaries are unchanged since 1939. Private Jewish or non-Jewish visitors visit occasionally. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II and occasionally in the last 10 years. Jewish individuals within country and Jewish individuals abroad did re-erection of stones, patched broken stones, cleaned stones and cleared vegetation 1945-1947. Now, individuals occasionally clean or clear site. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Vegetation overgrowth is a seasonal problem, preventing access. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access, vegetation and vandalism. Slight threat: weather erosion, pollution and existing nearby development.
Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of 270065, Odessa, Varnenskaya Street 17D, Apt. 52 [Phone: (0482) 665950] visited site on 3/30/95 and completed survey on 04/18/1995. Interviewed were Popskiy B.I., Berezovskaya L.P. of Shepetovka on 3/29/95. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.
- GRITSEV II: US Commission No. UA22200501
- See GRITSEV I for town information. The unlandmarked 1942 mass grave is located 6km East of village, near highway to Polonnoye. The isolated wooded flat land has signs or plaques in Ukrainian. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A continuous fence surrounds the mass grave. There is no gate. The approximate size of mass grave is now 0.01 hectares. No stones were removed. The mass grave has no special sections. Common stones date from 1973. The site contains marked mass graves. Municipality owns the site now used for mass burial site. Adjacent properties are forest. Organized individual tours and local residents visit occasionally. This mass grave never was vandalized. Now, authorities clear or clean occasionally. Within the limits of the mass grave are no structures. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access and vegetation. Slight threat: weather erosion, pollution and vandalism.
- Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of 270065, Odessa, Varnenskaya Street 17D, Apt. 52 [Phone: (0482) 665950] visited on 3/30/95 and completed survey on 04/18/1995. Interviewed were Berezovskaya L.P., Popskiy B.I. of Shepetovka on 3/29/95. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.