v. IVNITSA: US Commission No. UA05060101
v. Ivnitsa is located in Zhitomirskaya, 35 km from Zhitomir and 25 km from Andrushevka. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with no Jews.
- Town officials: Village Soviet - 97147.
- Others: Sivrovich Anastasiya Varfolomeevna of v. Ivnitsa, Radyanskaya Street 5.
The earliest known Jewish community was 1847. The last known Hasidic Jewish burial was until 1941. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated village 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. 1 to 20 common tombstones with more than 75% toppled or broken, date from 1910. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The municipality owns the property now used for agriculture (crops or animal grazing). Adjacent properties are residential. The cemetery boundaries are unchanged since 1939. Local residents visit rarely. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Very serious threat: uncontrolled access and vandalism. Serious threat: pollution. Slight threat: weather erosion, vegetation and proposed nearby development.
Kogan Leonid of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina Street 107, apt. 42 [Phone: 54239] visited site on 8/19/94. Interviewed were Sivkovich Anastasia Varfolomeevna of v. Ivnitsa, Radyanskaya Street 5. He completed survey on 10/01/1994.
