LOKACHI

LOKACHI I:     US Commission No. UA02170101
Alternate name: Lokache (Yiddish), Lokachi (German), Lokach (Hungarian), Lokatchi (Polish) and Lukach (Russian). The town is location 50º44 24º39, 60 km from Lutsk, 510 km from Kiyev, and 107 km from Lvov in Volynskaya. The cemetery is located at center near village executive and bank buildings. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with no Jews.

• Town officials: Village Executive Council of 264120, Lokachi, Mira Street 29 [Phone (03374) 21496].
  
• Local officials: Town Housing Department of 264120, Lokachi, Lutskaya Street 20 [Phone (03374) 21578].
  
• Regional: Oblast Cultural Department. Department for the Protection of Monuments of 263000, Lutsk, Galana Street 2, Chemeris Elena Vladimirovna. State Archives of Volynskaya Oblast at 263024, Lutsk, Veteranov Street 21.
  
• Volyn Jewish Community at 263000, Lutsk, Vinnichenko Street49, apt. 6 [Phone (03322) 24713]. Others: Community of Vohlynian Jews, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  

     The earliest known Jewish community was 18th century. 1939 Jewish population was 2853. Effecting Jewish Community was First World War, Civil War and Holocaust. The Jewish cemetery was established in the 18th century with last known Hasidic burial 1941. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban flat land and hillside has no sign or marker. Reached by Mira Street near autostation, access is open with permission. No wall, fence or gate and surround the cemetery with no visible stones, known mass graves, or structures. Municipality owns the property now used for industrial or commercial use and residential. Adjacent properties are commercial-industrial and residential. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of new roads or highways, housing development and commercial-industrial development. Rarely, private visitors and local residents stop. The cemetery was not vandalized in the last ten years. There is no maintenance now. Serious threat: vandalism. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access. No threat: weather erosion, pollution, vegetation, and existing nearby development and proposed nearby development.
     Kirzhner Moisey of 263005, Lutsk, Grushevskogo Street18, apt. 38 [Phone (03322) 34775] visited site and completed survey on 17/03/1995. Ogorodnichin V.G. of Locachi was interviewed on 17/03/1995. Documentation: State Archives of Volynskaya Oblast, fond 96, op. 1, d.221, 324, 414; Metrical book of birth & death records, 1859, 1861, 1863.
LOKACHI II:     US Commission No. UA02170501
The mass grave is located at W, near the town cemetery. The unlandmarked Jewish mass grave was dug in 1941. No Jews from other towns or villages were murdered here. The isolated rural (agricultural) hillside has signs or plaques in local language mentioning the Holocaust. Reached by Vladimirskaya Street, access is open to all. A broken fence with no gate surrounds site. There are no structures. 1 to 20 stones, all in original locations with none toppled or broken, date from 1989. No stones were removed. The mass grave has only common tombstones. The site contains marked mass graves. Municipality owns property used for mass burial site. Adjacent properties are residential. The mass grave is visited rarely by private visitors. This mass grave was not vandalized. Occasionally, authorities clear or clean. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access and vandalism. Slight threat: pollution and vegetation.
     Kirzhner Moisey of 263005, Lutsk, Grushevskogo Street18, apt. 38 [Phone (03322) 34775] on visited site and completed survey 18/05/1995. Nakonechniy V.A., Chemeris E.V. of Lutsk was interviewed on 16/03/1995 and Ogorodnichiy V.G. of Lokachi on 17/03/1995. Documentation: Shmuel Spector. The Holocaust of Vohlynian Jews. 1941-1945; newspaper 'Kolgospna Pravda' 13.05.1989 #57.