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Cemeteries in the Kremenets District
Cemeteries in the Kremenets District
A Guide to Jewish Cemetery Preservation in Western Ukraine lists the following Jewish cemeteries in the Kremenets district, with links to descriptions:
Belozirka ESJF
Berezhtsy ESJF
Pochayev ESJF
Rokhmanov ESJF
Shumsk (old) ESJF
Vyshgorodok (new) ESJF
Vyshgorodok (old) ESJF
CDP: JewishGen's Cemetery Discovery Project; CJA: Center for Jewish Art; ESJF: European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative; VW: Vanished World
At the cemetery, right to left: (1) Golde di zogerin, (2) Reyze di zogerin, (3) Mishke (Amolek) Gorelnikov, (4) Efraim Chazan. From Kremenits, Vyshgorodek, un Potshayuv yizkor bukh, p. 123. Zogerin is the Yiddish title for women who recited prayers in the vernacular for women unable to read Hebrew and for people visiting graves, among other roles. See Sagerin in the Jewish Encyclopedia.
Gravestone photo no. 1-0593 from the Kremenets Jewish Cemetery. It reads, "And I said to God, what are they? My Fortress is my God and I trust Him / an honorable and beloved elderly woman / God-fearing and pure / all her life was dedicated to her home / respected the honor of the home and honored her parents / left behind her, pious for eternity / who was registered in the book of the Visiting the Sick Society / Nechame Rivke, to the sorrow of her sons / and all those who knew her charitable life / the honorable daughter of R’ Mendil / Landisberg died 7 Iyar / in the year [5]632 [15 May 1872]"
Research on Kremenets-District Cemeteries
Research on Kremenets-District Cemeteries
Kremenets, Vishnevets, and Yampol Cemeteries
Kremenets, Vishnevets, and Yampol Cemeteries
Translations (in a spreadsheet) for a subset of the gravestones in these cemeteries:
Kremenets: 3,153 gravestones, 152?-1966
Vishnevets: 648 gravestones, 1730-1941
Yampol: 77 gravestones, 1779-1944
Also available through the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry.
(We have photos of 31 gravestones in the Lanovtsy New Cemetery and 3 from Vyshgorodok, but they have not yet been translated.)
Shumsk Cemetery
Shumsk Cemetery
Translations of 167 gravestones, through the Jewish Online World Burial Registry. Type "Shumsk" in the search box.
U.S. Landsmanshaft Cemeteries
U.S. Landsmanshaft Cemeteries
Kremenets: Montefiore Jewish Cemetery, 89 burials, 1936-1986 (Kremenetzer Wolyner Benevolent Society, Queens, NY) Plot Map (PDF) and Burials List (PDF)
Pochayev: Har Jehuda Cemetery, 1923-2008, 83 burials (Pochayev Voliner Aid Society section, Upper Darby, PA)
Yampol: Mount Hebron Cemetery, 1964-2017, 81 burials (Yampol Volyn Benevolent Society, Flushing, NY)
Kremenets District Jewish Cemeteries Project
Kremenets District Jewish Cemeteries Project
In 2006, KDRG received a grant from the Rothschild Foundation, Europe, to document the Kremenets and Vishnevets Jewish cemeteries' visible gravestones, produce formal surveys of the cemeteries, and develop plans for restoring the Kremenets cemetery and conserving the stones. (The Kremenets cemetery contains more than 7,500 gravestones. About 50 are from the 16th century, and 70 are from the 17th and 18th centuries.) You can search the resulting database of gravestone translations at the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry or download an Excel file.
We were unable to photograph the additional stones (more than 4,000) that were revealed after excess vegetation was cleared in 2006. In 2007, Rothschild awarded us an additional grant, but that amount was not sufficient for meaningful work toward the objectives in our grant application. Through 2008, we tried, but failed, to obtain supplementary grants. As a result, we had to decline the Rothschild grant.
Here are the grant application and the reports resulting from the project.
Banner photo: From photo no. 1048, Kremenets Jewish Cemetery, taken in 2004
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