KRIZHOPOL

KRIZHOPOL: used the cemetery at Zhabokrichi until 1932
KRIZHOPOL:     US Commission No. UA01120101
Krizhopol is located in Vinnitskaya at 48º23 28º53, 101 km from Vinnitsa. The cemetery is located on the corner of Sverdlova Street and K. Marksa Street. Present town population is 5,001-25,000 with 101-1,000 Jews.
-- Town officials: Town Executive Council - Chairman Podolyan Nikola Nikolayevich [Phone: (0434) 21463]. Town Executive Council - Chairman Podolyan Nikola Nikolayevich [Phone: -434].
-- Regional: Vinnitska Oblast Council of Melnick Nikola Evtukhovich [Phone: (0432) 327540]. Vinnitska Oblast Cultural Society - Ilechyk Nikola Nikolayevich [Phone: -432]
-- Vinnitska Oblast Jewish Community - Yakov Isakovitch Rabin [Phone: -434]. Vinnitska Oblast Jewish Community - Gybenko Bella Aronovna [Phone: (0432) 351666].
     The earliest known Jewish community was 19th century. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 1539. Effecting the Jewish Community were 1918-1920 pogrom and 1941-44Ghetto. The Jewish cemetery was established in 1932. The last known Hasidic burial was 1994. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated suburban flat land has no sign, but has Jewish symbols on gate or wall. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. The cemetery is surrounded by wall with non-locking gate with from 1991. 501 to 5000 stones, all in original location with less than 25% of surviving stones toppled or broken, date from 1932. Location of any removed tombstones is unknown. The cemetery has special sections for men and women. Some tombstones have traces of painting on their surfaces, iron decorations or lettering, other metallic elements, portraits on stones, and/or metal fences around graves. The cemetery contains marked mass graves. The local Jewish community and the municipality own the property used for Jewish cemetery only. Adjacent properties are commercial-industrial and residential. The cemetery boundaries is larger now than 1939. Frequently, organized individual tours visit and private visitors (Jewish or non-Jewish). The cemetery was vandalized prior to World War II, during World War II and occasionally in the last ten years. Local/municipal authorities, Jewish individuals within country and abroad patched broken stones, cleaned stones, cleared vegetation, fixed wall and fixed gate in 1991. Jewish survivors and contributions from visitors pay the regular caretaker. Within the limits of the cemetery watchman's hut. Vegetation overgrowth is a seasonal problem, preventing access. Moderate threat: vegetation. Slight threat: uncontrolled access, pollution, vandalism and existing nearby development.
     Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of 270065, Odessa, Varnenskaya 17D, Apt. 52 [Phone: (0482) 665950] visited site and completed survey on 7/4/94. Interviewed were members of Krijopol community. Documentation: City Populations of the Podol Region, Kamenets-Podol, 1905; National Minorities of Ukraine, Kharkov, 1925. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.