KATERINOVKA

KATERINOVKA I:     US Commission No. UA19050101
Alternate names: Katerburg (German) and Katrynburg (Hungarian). Katerinovka is located in Ternopolskaya at 50º0 25º53, 75 km from Rovno and 35 km from Kremenets. The cemetery is located at west of village Soviet. Present town population is under 1,000 with no Jews.
-- Town officials: Village Soviet of Ternopolsky Region, Kremenetsky District, Katerinovka 283724 [Phone: (071) 55186].
-- Regional: Region Soviet in Ternopol - Grushevskogo Street8 [Phone: (03522) 22105]. Society of Monuments Preservation [Phone: (03522) 23636].
-- Jewish Community of Ternopol, Gotlib Kalman of 282022, Ternopol, Dovzhenka Street11, apt.75 [Phone: (03522) 44216].
-- Others: Committee of Former Kremenets Citizens in Israel [Phone: 5065397] Israel 59331, Bat Yam of Rotshild Str.41.
     The earliest known Jewish community was 17-18th century. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 384. Effecting the Jewish Community were 1680 Khmelnitsky pogroms and 1919-1920 Civil War. The Jewish cemetery was established in 17-18th century with last known Hasidic (Karlin Stolin) Jewish burial in 1941. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated rural (agricultural) 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. 21 to 100 stones, most in original location with less than 25% of surviving common tombstones toppled or broken, date from 17th to 20th century. No stones were removed. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The municipality owns the property used for Jewish cemetery and other. Adjacent properties are agricultural. The cemetery boundaries are unchanged since 1939. Rarely, local residents visit. The cemetery was not vandalized in the last ten years. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Vegetation overgrowth is a seasonal problem, preventing access and disturbing graves and stones. Serious threat: vegetation. Moderate threat: pollution. Slight threat: uncontrolled access, weather erosion, vandalism and proposed nearby development.
     Kirzhner Moisey Davidovich of 263005 Lutsk, Grushevskogo Street 18, Apt. 38 [Phone: (03322) 34775] visited site on 7/7/95. Interviewed were Kizyma Roman Adamovich of Village Soviet on 7/7/95. Kirzhner completed survey on 07/09/1995. Documentation: Shmuel Spector. The Holocaust of Vohlynian Jews 1941-1945.; Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, Federation of Vohlynian Jews, 1990.
KATERINOVKA II:     US Commission No. UA19050501
Alternate names: Katrynburg (German) and Katerburg (Hungarian). The unlandmarked mass grave is located in southeast part of village. The Jewish mass grave was dug in 1941 with last known Jewish burial in 1944. No Jews from other towns or villages were murdered here. Between fields and woods, the isolated hillside 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 mass grave. No stones are visible or were removed. The site contains marked mass graves. The municipality owns the property. Adjacent properties are agricultural. Local residents visit rarely. The mass grave not was vandalized in the last ten years. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the mass grave are no structures. Vegetation overgrowth is a seasonal problem, preventing access. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access. Slight threat: weather erosion, pollution, vegetation and vandalism.
     Kirzhner Moisey Davidovich of 263005 Lutsk, Grushevskogo Street 18, Apt. 38 [Phone: (03322) 34775] visited site on 7/7/95. Interviewed was Kizyma Roman Adamovich of Village Soviet on 7/7/95. Kirzhner completed survey on 07/09/1995. Documentation: Shmuel Spector. The Holocaust of Vohlynian Jews 1941-1945.; Yad Vashem. Federation of Vohlynian Jews. Jerusalem, 1990. Map. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.