shepetovka cemeteries

shepetovka burials

The "new" Jewish cemetery, established in about 1900, is depicted below (and shown on the "people" page). The gate was reportedly funded by the landsmanschaft in New York. It is used for Jewish burials only. The cemetery contains stones from the abandoned "old" cemetery which dates to the 17th century. Shepetovka also has a newer cemetery established in 1945 which is used for Jewish and non-Jewish burials. The photo below is believed to date from the late 1920s. Source: Miriam Weiner Archives (received as a gift from Rabbi Shlomo Shapiro, born c. 1918 in Shepetovka, arrived in the U.S. in 1973, and lived in Brooklyn until his death in 1996). 

The "People" tab provides some name identifications, but if you can add information, please contact me.

In 2015, several descendants of Shepetovka immigrants commissioned a photographic survey of the "new" Shepetovka cemetery. Project participants were Lesley Kisner Cafarelli, Miriam Weiner, Marilyn Levinson, Sid Bennett, and Miriam Kirshner. The photographic survey was conducted by Alex Dunai, and translations were provided by Isabella Berger and Elisha Blatt. Several representative photographs are shown below. The entire collection can be viewed by logging into JewishGen, going to JOWBR under the Databases tab, and searching for the town "Shepetivka." 

More cemetery photos can be seen here and here. The website mitzvatemet also depicts many of the gravestones in the Shepetovka cemetery. A 2021 video of a limited section of the cemetery is seen here.  Note that the photos above were taken in the "new" Shepetovka cemetery, which was closed for burials in 1970s.  Jewish burials after that time took place in the City cemetery, initially in a separate section and later intermingled with non-Jewish burials. Photos of the municipal cemetery can be found here.

massachusetts burials

There is a Shepetovka section of the Baker Street cemetery in Boston/West Roxbury, Massachusetts. It is maintained by the Shepetovka Cemetery Association. Photos of the entry to this cemetery section, posted below, were provided by Norman Shacat. For a list of burials in the cemetery, visit JOWBR, click on the Databases tab, and searching for the town "Shepetivka." For information on the Baker Street cemetery, visit JCAM. 

The following photos of the cemetery were contributed by David Kalis.

Photos of the memorials at the West Roxbury cemetery can be viewed on Find-A-Grave. The collection there may not be complete. 

In Brooklyn, the Mount Carmel Cemetery has a section called Independent Shepatowksy, and Chicago's Waldheim Cemetery has a section for the Sudilkov-Shepetowka Relief Society. Please contact me if you can provide any photographs of the section markers or gravestones.

Compiled by Miriam Kirshner

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