MIKHAILOVKA

MIKHAILOVKA:     US Commission No. UA01660501
The mass burial site at 1.5 km from outskirts on NE, in the forest. Mikhailovka is 12 km from Gaysin. Present town population is 1,000 - 5,000 with no Jews.
-- Town officials: Village Soviet, Chairman Ponomarenko Sofiya Dmitrievna [Phone: (071) 52245]. Village Soviet, KSP 'Peremoga', Chairman Trofimenko Alexandr Yakovlevich [Phone: (071)52210].
-- Regional: Regional State Archives of Gaysin 13 B.Khmelnitskogo St. [Phone: (04334) 42184] and Regional State Archives of Vinnitskaya Oblast.
-- Jewish Community of Vinnitsa, Chairman Desner.
-- Caretaker: School of Mikhailovka - Director Sulima Andrey Grigorievich [Phone: (071) 52235].
Effecting Jewish community was 1942-1943 concentration camp for Jews and the mass execution. The Jewish mass grave was dug in 1942-1943. Gaysin (7 km away) and Teplik (7 km away) Jews were murdered here. The mass grave location is isolated wooded ravine has no sign, but Jewish symbols on gate or wall and Mogen David. The marker mentioned the Holocaust and Mogen David. Reached by turning directly off a public road and crossing Verbichsky forest, access is open to all. A continuous fence with non-locking gate surrounds. The approximate size of mass grave is now 0.01 hectares. The mass grave has no gravestones. The site contains marked mass graves. Municipality owns property used for Jewish cemetery only. Properties adjacent are the forest. The mass grave boundaries is larger now than 1939. Occasionally, organized individual tours, private visitors and local residents visit. This mass grave was not vandalized. Local/municipal authorities and Jewish groups within country cleared vegetation in 1990. Occasionally, authorities clean or clear. Within the limits of site are no structures. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access, weather erosion and vegetation (seasonal). Slight threat: pollution.
Sokolova Eleonora Eugen'evna of 253152 Kiev, 5 Tychiny St., Apt. 68 [Phone: (044) 5505681] visited and completed survey on 27/10/96. Interviewed was Bogach Ivan Sil'vestrovich of Apt. 60, 21, Gor'kogo St. Zolochev, L'vovskaya Oblast [Phone: 34597] on 27/10/96.