KUBLITCH

KUBLITCH:     US Commission No. UA01630101
The cemetery is located at the eastern outskirts, left of the road at 153 Lenina Street. Kublitch is 20 km from Gaysin. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with no Jews.
-- Town officials: Village Soviet of Chairman-Tsvigun Vasiliy Sergeevich [Phone: (071) 76216].
-- Jewish Community of Vinnitsa - Chairman Desner.
-- Regional: Regional State Archives of Gaysin and Regional State Archives of Vinnitskaya Oblast.
     The earliest known Jewish community was 18th century. Living here was Rabbi Itsko Aizenberg. The Jewish cemetery was established in the 18th century with last known Hasidic burial in 1918/1919. Zyatkovtsy (7 km away) used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated rural (agricultural) flat land of a hillside by water has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road and crossing private property, access is open with permission. A continuous fence with non-locking gate surrounds site. The approximate size of cemetery before WWII was 1.50 hectares. No stones are visible. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. Restoration was done in to 1918 but vandalism began in the 1930s. The cemetery was destroyed in 1960s. The municipality owns the site used as a private farmstead. Adjacent properties are agricultural and residential. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of housing development and agriculture. Rarely, private visitors and local residents visit.
     Sokolova Eleonora Eugen'evna of 253152 Kiev, 5 Tychiny Street, Apt. 68 [Phone: (044) 5505681] visited site and completed the survey on 24/10/96.