KUROVICHY

KUROVICHY:     US Commission No. UA13330501
Alternative names: German: Kurowiz; Polish: Kurowice. It is located in Lvovskaya oblasta 49÷46' 24÷26', 30 km from Lvov. The cemetery is located in the center of the village, 150m from a church to the northeast. Present town population is less than 1000 with no Jews.
-- Town officials: Village Soviet chairman Schur Oksana Vasilievna [Village Soviet in the center of the village, tel. 72218, 72241] Village Soviet - Kurovichy. Vladimir Pavlovich Sukhoples, Kurovichy, Lvovskaya St., #58.
-- Regional officials: Lvov Regional State Administration, Lvov, Vinnitskaya St., ×18, reception room, tel.722947 and 728093.
-- Authority: Lvov Jewish Community, Lvov, Mikhnovskih St. ×4, tel. 330524, Rabbi Mordekhai Shloime Bold.
     1935 Jewish population was 21. The Orthodox unlocked cemetery created May-June 1943 has no caretaker and was used in June 1943. Mykolaev, 9 km away, used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban plain marked by sign or marker in local language (Ukrainian), sign or marker in Hebrew. The sign mentions Jews and the Holocaust. The cemetery is reached by turning directly off the road. The access is open for all. No wall, gate, or fence surrounds the cemetery. The approximate size of the cemetery prior the World War II is unknown but now is 14 square meters. There is 1 granite-concrete stone in original location with no broken stones. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The 20th century trimmed stone with signs and monuments with several Hebrew and Ukrainian inscribed stones with metal fences around graves. Some separate monuments are dedicated to Holocaust victims. The cemetery contains unmarked mass graves. Municipality owns property used only as Jewish cemetery. A residential area borders the cemetery. The cemetery boundaries are larger than in 1939. The cemetery is visited from time to time by private visitors. The cemetery has never been vandalized. There has been rebuilding of the stones but no structures. Jews within the country and abroad are responsible for restoration 1993. At present, the cemetery has no care. Moderate threat: pollution, vegetation overgrowth. Slight threat: safety, erosion, vandalism, incompatible planned development (existing and planned).
     Iosif Gelston, Lvov, 290049, PO Box 10569, tel./fax: (0322) 227490 completed survey on 10.11.1998. Documentation: Slownik Geog. Krol. Polkiego , T.4, St. 628, Warszawa, 1883 (in Polish); Catechism of Lvov archdiocese of Greek-Catholic Church , page 91, Lvov 1935. Iosif Gelston visited the site for this survey in 28.10.1998. Sukhoples Vladimir Pavlovich, Kurovichy, Lvovskaya St., 58, (no tel. number) was interviewed.
     UPDATE: There was a forced labor camp in Kurovichy during German occupation where several hundreds of Jews from Kurovichy, Mykolaev and other villages were gathered. Jews who were ill or who could not work were killed from sporadically. According to old residents, the name of the German who killed them was Ekel. During 1980s former citizens of Kurovichy arrived in Kurovichy from Israel and established the cost of a monument for a relative at the mass-murder site. Old residents of Mykolaev verified the existence of the forced labor camp in Kurovichy and mass burial site. [Source?]