MALAYA SEYMENUKHA

v. MALAYA SEYMENUKHA I:     US Commission No. UA21090101
Alternate name: Shterndorf 1927-46 (Yiddish) and Seymenukha (Hebrew). v. Malaya Seymenukha is located in Khersonskaya Oblast, 165 km from Kherson and 235 km from Odessa. Cemetery location: SW part of village. Present town population is under 1,000 with no Jews.
-- Town official: Village Soviet, v. Blagodatovo, Yatsenko Viktor Alekseevich (05532) 39669.
-- Responsible: Veliko-Aleksandrovka, Region Executive Committee of Belokon, Vladimir Fedorovich (055332) 21491 and 21365.
-- Regional: Kherson Oblast Dept. of Culture, Tischenko Andrey Nikolayevich (05522) 22230. Veliko-Aleksandrovka Regional Dept. of Culture - Tolstaya Tat'yana Mikhaylovna (05532) 21150.
-- Jewish Community of Kherson. Steyman Boris Zinoviyevich (05522) 64129.
The earliest known Jewish community is town was 1877. 1926 Jewish population was 950. Effecting the Jewish Community was 1927 Jewish colony in the Kalinindorf Jewish national region. The Jewish cemetery was established in 1877 with last known Hasidic Orthodox burial 1940. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated suburban and agricultural hillside has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No walls, fence, or gate surrounds. The size of cemetery before WWII and now is 0.08 hectares. 101 to 500 stones, with 21 to 100 not in original locations and 50% - 75% broken or toppled, date from end of 19th century. The location of removed stones is unknown. The cemetery has no special sections. The granite and limestone flat shaped stones or finely smoothed and inscribed stones have Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian inscriptions. Some tombstones have traces of painting on their surfaces. No known mass graves. Municipality owns property is used for Jewish cemetery only. Properties adjacent to the cemetery are agricultural. The cemetery boundaries remain the same since 1939. Local residents visit rarely. Site was vandalized during World War II. There was no maintenance or care. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Security (uncontrolled access), weather, pollution, vegetation, vandalism and incompatible existing development are slight to very serious threats.
Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of 270065, Odessa, Varnenskaya St. 17d, Apt. 52 Phone: (0482) 665950 completed survey and completed survey on 06/07/1995. Additional documentation exists but was inaccessible. Tischenko M.A. of Malaya Seymenukha was interviewed in 04/ /1995.
v. MALAYA SEYMENUKHA II:     US Commission No. UA21090501
Mass grave location: NW part of village. The Jewish mass grave was dug in 1941. No Jews from other towns or villages were murdered at this unlandmarked mass grave. The isolated suburban agricultural hillside has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A continuous fence with non-locking gate surrounds the mass grave. The present size of mass grave is 0.01 hectares. No stones were removed from this mass grave. The mass grave is not divided into special sections and no unmarked mass graves. Municipality owns property used for mass burial site. Properties adjacent to the mass grave are agricultural. Occasionally, local residents visit. Site was vandalized during World War II. There is no care now. Within the limits of site are no structures. Security (uncontrolled access), weather, pollution, vegetation, vandalism and development are slight or moderate threats.
Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of 270065, Odessa, Varnenskaya St. 17d, Apt. 52 Phone: (0482) 665950 visited site and completed survey on 06/05/1995. Additional documentation exists but was inaccessible. Tischenko M.A. of v. Malaya Seymenukha was interviewed for this survey on 04/ /1995.