KHASHCHEVATOYE

KHASHCHEVATOYE I:     US Commission No. UA10030101
Alternate names: Khashchevatoye (Russian). Khashchevatoye is located in Kirovogradskaya at 48º42 35º20, 235 km from Odessa, 180 km from Vinnitsa, 80 km from Uman, and 45 km from Dnepropetrovsk. The cemetery is located at west patr. Khashchevatoye. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with fewer than 10 Jews.
-- Town officials: Gayvoron rayispolkom, Voronitskiy Nikolay Ivanovich (05254) 25432. Khashchevatoye, Solgunskiy Leonid Izrailevich, kraeved (05254) 34297.
-- Regional: Kirovograd Oblispolkom, Tishchenko Larisa Ivanovna (05222) 51814. Kirovograd Oblast Archive. Kirovograd Oblast Associate of Jewish culture, Yalovetskiy Vladimir Lvovich (0522) 35963.
     The earliest known Jewish community was 18th century. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 3170. Effecting the Jewish Community were 1768-1772 pogroms, 1919 pogroms. The Jewish cemetery was established in 18(?) with last known Hasidic burial in early 1941. Gayvoron (8 km away) used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated suburban agricultural hillsidehas no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds site. No stones are visible. Location of any removed tombstones is unknown. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The kolhoz owns the property used for agriculture (crops or animal grazing). Adjacent properties are agricultural. The cemetery boundaries are unchanged since 1939. The cemetery never is visited. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II. There is no maintenance, structures, or threats.
     Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of 270065, Odessa, Varnenskaya Street 17D, Apt. 52 [Phone: (0482) 665950] visited site and completed survey on 10/9/94. Interviewed on 10/9/94 were Solgunskiy L.I. of Khashchevatoye and Kasurkin A.A. of Gayvoron and Solodkiy M.Y. of Gayvoron. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.
KHASHCHEVATOYE II:     US Commission No. UA10030102
     The cemetery is located at road to Gayvoron. The Jewish cemetery was established in 1942 with last known Hasidic burial in 1974. Gayvorona (12 km away) used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated suburban agricultural hillside has signs or plaques in local language mentioning the Holocaust. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A broken masonry wall with no gate surrounds site. 21 to 100 stones, all in original location with no stones toppled, broken, or removed date from 1946. The cemetery has no special sections. Some tombstones have traces of painting on their surfaces, portraits on stones, and/or metal fences around graves. The cemetery contains marked mass graves. The municipality owns the site used for Jewish cemetery only. Adjacent properties are agricultural. The cemetery boundaries is larger now than 1939. Occasionally, Jewish or non-Jewish private visitors stop. The cemetery was vandalized occasionally in the last ten years. There has been cleared vegetation. Now, occasionally, individuals clean or clear. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access and vegetation. Slight threat: weather erosion, pollution, vandalism and existing nearby development.
     Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of 270065, Odessa, Varnenskaya Street 17D, Apt. 52 [Phone: (0482) 665950] visited and completed survey on 12/25/94. Interviewed was Soltunskiy Leonid Izrailevich on 12/25/94.