MARYANOVKA

MARYANOVKA:     US Commission No. UA05610501
Alternate name: Guta Maryanovka (Russian). Maryanovka is located in Zhitomirskaya, 59 km from Baranovka and 69 km from Zhitomir. The mass grave is located N, near Christian cemetery. Present town population is 1,000 - 5,000 with fewer than 10 Jews.
-- Town officials: Village Executive Council, Chairman -Dobrovolskiy Aleksandr Petrovich [Phone: (04144)42008].
-- Regional: Cultural Memorial Protection Society, Borisyuk N.E. [Phone: (0412) 370807]. Regional Cultural Memorial Protection Society, Savchuk Vladimir Terentyevich.
-- Others: Revutskiy Valentin Kamilyevich - Safinskaya Anna Petrovna.
The earliest known Jewish community was 1897. 1926 Jewish population (census) was 133. The Hasidic Jewish mass grave was dug in 1941. Bykovka (6 km away) Jews were murdered here. The isolated wooded flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by crossing other public property (near Christian cemetery), access is open to all. A continuous fence with no gate surrounds. 1 to 20 common tombstones, all in original location with none toppled or broken, date from 1995. No stones were removed. The site contains marked mass graves. Municipality owns mass burial site. Properties adjacent are Christian cemetery. The mass grave boundaries is larger now than 1939. Rarely, local residents visit. This mass grave was not vandalized. Local non-Jewish residents did re-erection of stones, cleared vegetation and fixed wall in 1995. Now, occasionally individuals clean or clear. Within the limits of site are no structures. Moderate threat: vandalism. Slight threat: uncontrolled access, weather erosion, pollution, vegetation and proposed nearby development.
Kogan Leonid of Novograd-Volynskiy, Lenina St. 107, apt. 42 [Phone: (04141) 54259] visited site on 29/07/1996. Interviewed were Safinskaya Anna Petrovna of 60 let Oktaybrya St., 21 on 29/07/1996 and Revutskiy Valentin Kamilyevich [Phone: (04144)73321] on 29/07/1996. Kogan completed survey on 30/07/1996. Documentation: Vetubliy Movement of Jewish People in Ukraine 1930.