GREMYACH

GREMYACH 251700: US Commission No. UA24200101
Gremyach 251700 is located in Chernigovskaya at 52÷20 33÷17, 126 km from Konotop, 45 km from Novgorod-Severskiy, and 12 km from Vitemlya. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with no Jews. Contacts unknown.
     The earliest known Jewish community was beginning 19 [sic]. 1926 Jewish population (census) was 41. The last known Hasidic Jewish burial was 1940. Mihalchina Sloboda (15km away) used this unlandmarked cemetery. The rural (agricultural) hillside, isolated has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a private road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds site. No stones are visible. Stones removed were incorporated into roads or structures. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. The municipality owns the property now used for agriculture (crops or animal grazing). Adjacent properties are agricultural. The cemetery boundaries are unchanged since 1939. Rarely, Jews and non-Jews visit. Restoration was done in until 1940. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the cemetery are no structures. No threats.
     Sokolova Eleonora Evgenievna of 253152, Kiev, Tychini Prospect 5, Apt. 68 [Phone: (044) 5505681] visited site and completed survey on 10/12/94. Interviewed were Kurila Efrosinya Titovna of Lugovaya Street, (Gudovka) on 10/12/94 and Yuhnyuk Mihail Andreevich of Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, 4 [Phone: (04658)27247] on 10/12/94. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.