LIPNYAZHKA: US Commission No. UA10150501
The mass grave is located at northwestern outskirts of the village. Lipnyazhka is 103 km from Kirovograd. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with no Jews.
- Town officials: Village Soviet Chairman-Kuz'menko Tatiyana Nikolaevna [Phone (05253) 22308].
- Regional: Regional State Department Chairman-Kraynosvit Viktor Petrovich [Phone (05253) 21246]. Regional State Department of Kirovogradskaya Oblast Chairman Gromovoy Mikhail Fillipovich [Phone (0522) 240330].
- Jewish Community of Kirovograd Chairman Elbert Leonid Solomonovich.
- Others: Museum of the Local History, St. Dobrovelichkovka-Troskachenko Dmitry Dmitrievich [Phone (05253) 22236].
The earliest known Jewish community was 19th century. Effecting Jewish Community was 1905 pogroms and Civil War. No Jews from other towns or villages were murdered at this unlandmarked 1941Hasidic mass grave. The isolated suburban agricultural hillside has signs or plaques in local language and without inscription. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds site. 1 to 20 common tombstones, all in original location with none removed, date from 1955. The site contains marked mass graves. Municipality owns site now used for Jewish cemetery only. Adjacent properties are agricultural and residential. The mass grave boundaries are larger now than 1939. Rarely, local residents visit. This mass grave was not vandalized. Local/municipal authorities did re-erection of stones and cleared vegetation 1955 to 1996. Occasionally, authorities clear or clean. Within the limits of site are no structures. Moderate threat: vegetation (seasonal). Slight threat: uncontrolled access, weather erosion (seasonal), pollution and proposed nearby development. No threat: vandalism and existing nearby development.
Khodorkovsky Yury Isaakovich of Apt. 23, 37a Vozduhoflotsky Prospect, Kiev [Phone (044) 2769505] visited site on 05/11/96. Interviewed was Troskachenko Dmitry Dmitrievich [Phone (05253) 22236] on 04/11/96. Khodorkovsky completed survey on 14/11/96. Documentation: Borovoy S.Y.
Evreyskaya zemledel'cheskaya kolonizatsiya v staroy Rossii.-M., 1928;
Kirovogradshchina v roki Velykoi Vitchiznyanoy Viyni. 1941-1945. Zbirnik dokumentiv i materialiv.-Dnepropetrovsk, 1965.
