HAMLET SUHOVLYA: US Commission No. UA17280501
Hamlet Suhovlya is located in Rovenskaya, 1km from Rafalovka. The mass grave is located at west in forest near with road to Rafalovka. Present town population is under 1,000 with no Jews.
- Town officials: Lozki Village Executive Council of Bashmakov Victor Nikolaevich [Phone: (071) 55435].
- Regional: Bureau of Memorial Protection Oblast Local History Museum of Rovno, Dragomanova 19 [Phone: (03622) 21833]. State Oblast Archive of Rovno, Moskovskaya Street 26 [Phone: (0362) 233004]
- Jewish Community of Rovno, Shkolnaya, 39 [Phone: (03622) 69993]. Yad Vashem, Israel.
The earliest known Jewish community was 17th century. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 2500. Effected Jewish Community: Khmelnitskiy's pogroms and World Wars. The unlandmarked Hasidic (Karlin-Stolin) Jewish mass grave was dug 28 August 1942. St. Jews from Rafalovka (15km away), Rafalovka (1.5km away), and Antonovk (15km away) also were murdered here. The isolated wooded flat land has signs or plaques in Ukrainian 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. 1 to 20 common tombstones, all in original location with none toppled or broken, date from 1990. No stones were removed. The mass grave has no special sections. The site contains marked mass graves. Municipality owns the site now used for mass burial site. Adjacent property is forest. The mass grave boundaries is larger now than 1939. Organized individual tours, Jewish or non-Jewish private visitors and local residents visit rarely. The mass grave has been not vandalized in the last 10 years. Local/municipal authorities did restoration in 1990: re-erection of stones. Now, authorities clear or clean occasionally. Within the limits of the mass grave are no structures. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access, vegetation and vandalism. Slight threat: weather erosion and pollution.
Kirzhner Moisey of 263005, Lutsk, Grushevskogo Prospect 18,apt.38 [Phone: (03322) 34775] visited site and completed survey on 12/5/96. Maluyko Natalya Grigoryevna was interviewed on 12/5/96. Documentation: see at section 14. [sic] Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.
