MIROPOL

MIROPOL I:     US Commission No. UA05100501
Alternate name: Miropol (German). Miropol is located in Zhitomirskaya, 86 km from Zhitomir. The mass grave is located at right side of r. Sluch. Present town population is 5,001 - 25,000 with fewer than 10 Jews.
-- Town officials: Village Executive Council, Chairman -Kuharchuk Anatoliy Dmitriyevich [Phone: (04146) 95132]. Levchuk Leonid Pavlovich of Dzerzhinsk, 50 let Oktyabrya St. 2 [Phone: (04146) 91346]. Barchuk Petr Ivanovich of Dzerzhinsk, Shevchenko St. 98 [Phone: (04146) 91148].
-- Regional: Cultural Memorial Protection Society, Borisyuk N.E. [Phone: (0412) 370807].
The earliest known Jewish community was 1648. 1926 Jewish population (census) was 1189 [or 1315]. Effecting the Jewish Community was 1648 community annihilation by Khmelnitskiy's army. The unlandmarked Hasidic Jewish mass grave was dug in 1941. No Jews from other towns or villages were murdered here. The isolated urban flat land has signs or plaques in local language mentioning the Holocaust. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds site. 1 to 20 stones, all in original location with none toppled or broken, date from 1982. No stones were removed. The mass grave has only common tombstones. The site contains marked mass graves. Municipality owns mass burial site. Properties adjacent are afforestation [fire or forest station]. The mass grave boundaries is larger now than 1939. Rarely, local residents visit. This mass grave was not vandalized. Local/municipal authorities did re-erection of stones. Occasionally, authorities clean or clear. Within the limits of site are no structures. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access, vegetation and vandalism. Slight threat: weather erosion, pollution, existing and proposed nearby development.
Kogan Leonid of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina St. 107, apt. 42 [Phone: (04141) 54259] visited site and completed survey on 26/07/1996. Interviewed was Levchuk Leonid Pavlovich of Dzerzhinsk, 50 let Oktyabrya St. 2 on 26/07/1996. Documentation: Jewish Encyclopaedia . Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.
MIROPOL II:     US Commission No. UA05100101
The last known Hasidic burial was 1994. No other towns or villages uses this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by crossing private property, access is open to all. A broken masonry wall with non-locking gate surrounds site. 21 to 100 stones, all in original location with less than 25% stones toppled or broken, date from 1896. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery has no special sections. Some tombstones have portraits on stones and/or metal fences around graves. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The property is used for Jewish cemetery only. Properties adjacent are residential and other. The cemetery boundaries are unchanged since 1939. Local residents visit rarely. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II. Local Jewish resident cleared vegetation. Now, occasionally individuals clean or clear. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Vegetation overgrowth is a seasonal problem preventing access. Moderate threat: vegetation. Slight threat: uncontrolled access, weather erosion, pollution, vandalism and proposed nearby development.
Kogan Leonid of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina St. 107, apt. 42 [Phone: (04141) 54259] visited site on 7/26/94. Interviewed was Kulichunskaya Bronislava Iosifovna of Miropol, Gorkogo 23 on 7/26/94. Kogan completed survey on 07/27/1994.