KUPISHTCHE

KUPISHTCHE:     US Commission No. UA05600501
Kupishtche is located in Zhitomirskayam 10 km from Korosten. The mass grave is located at North, near car-tractor barn. Present town population is under 1,000 with no Jews.
-- Town officials: Village Executive Council of Chairman -Levkovich Vera Stanislavovna [Phone: (04142) 42401].
-- Regional officials: Regional Department of Culture - Korosten, Franko Street 4. Cultural Memorial Protection Society of Zhitomir, Mikhaylovskaya, 10a [Phone: (0412) 370807].
-- Others: Koroste Society Mitsvah-Chernobil of Krasina Street, 23 [Phone: (04142) 42265]. Aleksiycuk Vera Danilovna.
     In Summer-Autumn 1943, Jews from Hungary were also shot. The unlandmarked Jewish mass grave was dug in 1942 with last known Jewish burial in 1943. 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 the mass grave. No stones are visible or removed. The mass grave has no special sections but contains unmarked mass graves. The municipality owns the property used for agriculture (crops or animal grazing) and mass burial site. Adjacent properties are agricultural and residential. The mass grave boundaries is larger now than 1939. This mass grave has not been vandalized. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the mass grave are no structures. The lack of gate enables people to graze cattle.
     Kogan Leonid of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina Street 107, Apt. 42 [Phone: (04141) 54259] visited site and completed survey on 10/7/96. Interviewed on 10/7/96 were Aleksiycuk Vera Danilovna of Kupistche, Povarova Street, 64 and Yuryevich Pavel Romanovich & Anna Samoyl.