KRIVOY ROG

KRIVOY ROG I:     US Commission No. UA03020101
Alternate names: Krivay Rog (Yiddish), Krivoi Rog (German), Krivoj Rog (Hungarian) and Krzywy Rog (Polish). Krivoy Rog is located in Dnepropetrovskaya at 33º21 47º55,133 km from Dnepropetrovsk. The cemetery is located at Valyavko Street, western part of town. Present town population is over 100,000 with 101-1,000 Jews.
-- Town officials: Town Executive Council - Mayor: Lybonenko Juri Ivanovich. Krivorozski Department of Culture - (0564) 231864. Krivorozski Historical-Craft Museum (0564) 297442. Krivorodski Town Archive (0564) 211321.
-- Krivorozski Jewish Jewish Community, Polyshchyk Anna Borysovna.
-- Dnipropetrovsk Jewish Community, Korol Gregory Hatanovich.
     The earliest known Jewish community was 19th century. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 6430. Effecting the Jewish Community were 1918-1920 civil war pogroms and end 20th century liquidation of Jewish kahals. The Hasidic Jewish cemetery was established in 1946 with last known Jewish burial 1994. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The urban flat land, part of a municipal cemetery, has signs or plaques in local language. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A broken masonry wall with non-locking gate surrounds the cemetery. 501 to 5000 stones, all in original location with no surviving stones toppled, broken, or removed, date from 1946. The cemetery has no special sections. Some tombstones have traces of painting on their surfaces, iron decorations or lettering, bronze decorations or lettering, other metallic elements, portraits on stones, and/or metal fences around graves. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The municipality owns the property used for Jewish cemetery. Adjacent properties are commercial or industrial. The cemetery boundaries is larger now than 1939. Frequently, Jewish or non-Jewish private visitors stop. This cemetery has not been vandalized. Jewish individuals within country cleared vegetation 1946-1994. Now, occasionally, individuals clean or clear. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. Moderate threat: uncontrolled access. Slight threat: weather erosion, pollution, vegetation and vandalism.
     Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of 270065, Odessa, Varnenskaya Street, 17D, Apt. 52 [Phone: (0482) 665950] visited site on 12/3/94. Interviewed on 12/3/94 were Katrenko V.S. and Shabliy S.V. of Krivoy Rog. Oks completed survey on 12/26/1994. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.
KRIVOY ROG II:     US Commission No. UA03020102
The cemetery is located at Lermontova Street. The Hasidic cemetery was established in 1870s? with last known Jewish burial 1948. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds site. No stones are visible. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The municipality owns the site used for "other." Adjacent properties are residential. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of housing development. Rarely, local residents visit. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. No threats
     Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of 270065, Odessa, Varnenskaya Street, 17D,Apt. 52 [Phone: (0482) 665950] visited site on 12/3/94. Interviewed on 12/3/94were Katrenko V.S. and Shabliy S.V. of Krivoy Rog. Oks completed survey on 12/26/1994. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.
KRIVOY ROG III:     US Commission No. UA03020501
The unlandmarked 1941 mass grave is located at north. No Jews from other towns or villages were murdered here. The urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by city street, approximate size of mass grave is now 0.01 hectares. No stones were removed. The mass grave has no special sections but contains unmarked mass graves. The municipality owns the property. Adjacent properties are commercial or industrial. Local residents visit rarely. This mass grave has not been vandalized. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the mass grave are no structures. No threats.
     Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of 270065, Odessa, Varnenskaya Street, 17D, Apt. 52 [Phone: (0482) 665950] visited site in 12/1994. Interviewed in 12/1994 were Katrenko E.V. and Shabliy S.V. of Krivoy Rog. Oks completed survey on 02/09/1995. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.