GULYAY POLE

GULYAY POLE I:     US Commission No. UA07020101
Alternate name: Holiapol (Hungarian), Guljai Pole (Polish) and Gulay Pole (Russian). Gulyay Pole is located in Zaporozhskaya at 48÷7 34÷8, 96 km from Zaporoje and 69 km from Dnepropetrovsk. Present town population is 25,001-100,000 with 11-100 Jews.

• Local officials: City Ispolkom.
  
• See GULYAY POLE III for more contacts.

     The earliest known Jewish community was second half 19 [sic]. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 1182. Living here was L.Yuhvid, H. Melamud, and M.Tardov. The last known Hasidic Jewish burial was 1965. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A continuous fence with non-locking gate surrounds the cemetery. 21 to 100 stones all in original location with no surviving stones toppled or broken, date from 1879 to 20th century. Location of any removed stones is unknown. Some tombstones have portraits and/or metal fences around graves. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The municipality and private individual(s) own property used for Jewish cemetery only. Adjacent properties are residential. Private Jewish or non-Jewish visitors visit occasionally. This cemetery has not been vandalized. Jewish individuals within country cleaned stones and cleared vegetation. Now, individuals occasionally clean or clear site. No threats.
     Shevelev Mark Petrovich of 330000,Zaporoje, Tsentralniy bulvar 25, apt.54 [Phone: (0612) 396982] visited site and completed survey on 9/6/94. Interviewed was Kirinenko Aleksandr Aleksandrovich of Gulyay Pole, Potaynaya Street on 9/6/94.
GULYAY POLE II:     US Commission No. UA07020102
     See GULYAY POLE III for town information. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked Hasidic cemetery. The 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 site. 101 to 500 stones, few in original location and no surviving stones toppled or broken, date from the 20th century. Some tombstones have iron decorations or lettering, other metallic elements and/or metal fences around graves. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The municipality owns the property now used for agriculture (crops or animal grazing). Adjacent properties are residential. Local residents visit rarely. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Vegetation overgrowth is a seasonal problem, preventing access and disturbing graves. Very serious threat: pollution and vegetation. Serious threat: uncontrolled access, weather erosion, vandalism, and existing nearby development and proposed nearby development.
     Shevelev Mark Petrovich of 330000, Zaporoje, Tsentralniy bulvar 25, apt. 54 [Phone: (0612)396982] visited site and completed survey on 9/8/94. Interviewed was Dirovets Nataliya Ivanovna of Gulyay Pole, Pyatihatki Street on 9/8/94.
GULYAY POLE III:     US Commission No. UA07020501
The mass grave is located at Shevchenko Street, northeast. Present town population is 25,001-100,000 with 11-100 Jews.

• Town officials: rayispolkom, Biryukov Igor Alekseevich of 332832, Gulyay Pole, 3-th internationala Street, 50.
  
• Local officials: Culture Department of rayispolkom, Shingur Valeriy Nikolaevich of (06145) 41056. Regional: Oblast Department of Culture, Chugunenko Viktor Ivanovich of 330107, Zaporozhye, pr. Lenina, 164. Society of Monuments of Culture and Historical Preservation - Sidorenko Mikhail Mikhaylovich [Phone: (0612) 346034].
  
• Others: Kraevedcheskiy Museum, Director Didovets Natalya Ivanovna of 332832, Gukyay Pole, Lenina Street, 79.

     The earliest known Jewish community was 1901. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 1182. Effecting Jewish Community was 1941-1943 genocide. Noteworthy Jews living in town were writer Note Lurye and M.Kerner, "starosta" of synagogue. The unlandmarked Conservative Jewish mass grave was dug in 1941. The urban, flat land is reached by city street. Access is open to all. No wall, fence or gate surrounds the mass grave. The approximate size of mass grave is now 0.01 hectares. The mass grave has no special sections. Stones date from 1965. The site contains marked mass graves. Municipality owns the site used for mass burial site. Adjacent properties are AZS. The mass grave is visited occasionally by local residents. This mass grave never was vandalized. Now, authorities clear or clean occasionally. Within the limits of the mass grave are no structures. No threats.
     Shevelev Mark Petrovich of 330000, Zaporoje, Tsentralniy Bulvar 25, apt. 54 [Phone: (0612)396982] visited site 04/1992, 08/1993 and 01/1995 and completed survey on 01/22/1995. No interviews were conducted for this survey.